POLITICIANS beware! Two University of York graduates are watching you chat in cyberspace.

Matthew Freckleton and Chris Etheridge, both aged 22, have formed Yatterbox designed to monitor every MP’s tweet, every utterance on Facebook, every pronouncement on YouTube, Flickr, RSS feeds or Hansard online.

Their website, Yatterbox.co.uk, which will update their social network natterings second by second, went live today and is designed to attract subscribers like journalists, lobbyists and politicians themselves.

Matthew said: “We will have a repository, an archive, a permanent and changing record of everything the politicians put out in cyberspace. Subscribers will be able to monitor trends and top issues dominating the thoughts of our elected representatives.

The website was constructed by Talking Drum Design headed up by Richard Taylor, who graduated in computer science at York seven years ago.

Yatterbox is one of seven new businesses which have moved in to Springboard, York Science Park’s new incubation space for start-up companies and entrepreneurs.

Springboard firms occupy the upper floor within the futuristic Ron Cooke Hub, the £2 million copper-clad centrepiece of the University of York’s £750 million East Heslington campus development. Tracey Smith, York Science Park’s managing director, said: “Since Springboard opened its doors only a month ago, we have had a huge amount of interest from start-ups and entrepreneurs with great business ideas who want to use our dynamic space to transform their ideas into commercially viable reality.

“I’m delighted the first seven businesses in the space are already benefiting from the supportive and collaborative environment that Springboard offers, ranging from the huge shared workspace to the fully-managed individual offices. Its close proximity to world-class research and academics at the University of York is a major benefit in being based here. ”

The other six Springboard businesses are:

• Ian Walker & Co Chartered Accountants, which provides small and medium enterprises with business advice and support, financial reporting and analysis, and varied tax reporting and planning services

• The Big Bang Partnership Ltd, which specialises in innovation and entrepreneurial consultancy, facilitation and training

• Insighlytics; a company that develops software to help organisations extract business insights from conversations in social media

• Inclusive Innovations Ltd, which develops and commercialises medical devices and consumer sporting accessories like the iicap, which keeps spectacles steady when jogging or swinging at a golf ball

• ECOmmunity Together CIC, an independent non- profit social enterprise company, specialising in environmental solutions and brokerage as well as offering fundraising and community projects

• Hub Renewables LLP run by Benjamin Byron which specialises in large-scale renewable technologies such as harnessing power from wind, water, waste, sun and biomass.