The tool will collect data and start populating a shadow Twitter account with a daily tweet that the algorithm determines match the person's habits and interests.
Fitch says the resulting growth of broad credit, which includes credit from shadow and offshore sources, was a factor in the recent improvement in Chinese data.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham demanded a "categorical assurance" from the minister that data could not be used "for purposes other than research - passed on to third parties or used by the same company to target people for other products and services".