The new search tool, which can be found online here, “measures the pulse” of politics, Tweetminister said, by allowing users to enter a search term and instantly seeing how people are discussing it on Twitter.

Sky News will use it to gauge opinion on today’s pre-budget report from chancellor Alistair Darling.

Alberto Nardelli, co-founder of Tweetminster said, “By using the power of Twitter the application aims to foster an unprecedented community around politics in the UK and at the same time provides professionals and politicians with tools to engage, track and analyse political conversations in real time. You can think of it as a social Bloomberg for UK politics.”