Over at TweetyHall we are asking if and how we should create hashtags for councils on Twitter.

We’re looking for opinions on whether this is something worth doing. We would like to work with you (as residents, politicians and councils) to allocate each local council area a three letter tag. In this way we hope to be able to help keep things simple, easy to remember and make it easy for you to find information on your local area during the local elections and beyond.

Does your council already have a hashtag?

We also don’t want to start from scratch with a new tag if one is already being used successfully by a council or residents so please let us know.

What should your hashtag be if you don’t already have one?

Well one way might be to take a look at the national rail station codes as these are all unique three letter combinations which local people should (might!) be able to recognise as relating to their area.

Of course this system isn’t perfect, for instance many councils have more than one station in their area and their may be conflict in two tier areas with county and district councils both seeming like the best fit for a certain tag. But given there are around 500 councils and 2300 station codes, we’re hoping that with a bit of common sense we can work around these!

You can read more and join the debate on the TweetyHall Blog.