Winston Peters has become the laughing stock of the internet after appearing to unitentionally reveal his Twitter-search habits - and now Ed Balls, a English politician who famously made the same faux pas - has joined in, appearing to enjoy Mr Peters' slip up.

On Saturday morning he took to social media site Twitter and apparently tried to search for his own name.

Twitter's interface has two main boxes to type in: a 'search' box and a 'compose tweet' box. Mr Peters evidently got the two confused.