Hugh Hewitt has shut down the comment section at HughHewitt.com, switching his user feedback entirely to Twitter. He’s using a “hash tag” (“#hhrs”),for those of you for whom that means anything.

Every message sent over Twitter –every “tweet”– that contains your hash tag will then show up when you search the hash tag at search.twitter.com. All the folks listening to your show who want to communicate with you but who don’t want to look up your e-mail or get to their computer can then do so, and also see what all other tweeting listeners are saying. Instant chat room about your show. It can go 24/7, but of course is most useful during the program. When Joel Kaplan was on today’s program, for example, the online comments were not very encouraging for Mr. Kaplan’s arguments.

Think of it as expanding your inbound lines by as many as you can comfortably read.

Or, alternately, think of it as “confusing the bejeebers out of people who just don’t get Twitter yet”.

And, oddly, I’m one of them.

But I’ll work on it, since I sorta kinda grabbed “#narn2” for Ed and I.

So someone ‘splain it to me, since I’m as clueless as can be about Twitter.