Took me a while to understand what CiL was adding. I thought it was to aggregate various related twitter hashtags into one stream. Suspect it was also for people who couldn’t access a constant twitter stream in tweetdeck or a similar application.

Dominating the choice of hashtag and getting it out there early enough is clearly key as otherwise tweets have to be short enough to leave space for >1 hashtag which is daft. So well done on #budget09 – the obvious one with the benefit of hindsight.

I struggled to watch the speech on tv, post tweets, make some notes for later use and monitor the other tweets using #budget09. I’m not a natural multitasker. (well not that much anyway. I don’t know how you do it!)