Over the years, times have changed – Kevin took to blogging a lot of these thoughts for the world to see. He also continued to use the WWWBoard to talk to the fans, but typically on a more rapid-fire basis. It seemed that the new trend was “say less, more often”. And fans loved it. Still, there was never any promise that a post or question would get attention from Kevin. The number one question in our mailboxes was always “How can I talk to Kevin”?

Enter TWITTER. This new insta-blog service limits each post to a mere 140 characters, causing those with busy lives to take to it in droves, due to its simplicity. Kevin himself has been seen on the service almost daily over the past few months, with a record number of followers — More than practically every other Twitter account out there.

While some folks typically make Twitter a one-way street to communicate outward, Kevin has taken this a step further, and gone on several Q&A response rampages via the account, basically taking tweets that had been sent in his direction and responding for the world to see. As far as we know, Kevin’s the first guy to take it to this level. Now, this Monday, Kevin will blaze a trail that no tweeter has dared blaze before.

This Monday, September 7th, Labor Day in the US, for 24 straight hours, Kevin will take any and all questions via Twitter and answer them in a Q&A marathon. If you’ve been waiting for years to have a direct chat with the man, this is your best chance ever.

The story is making its rounds on the web – Major news outlet Reuters broke the story last night (along with a nice link back to a classic story here at News Askew, thanks very much). So, keep in mind that there’s likely to be a lot of people firing tweets Kevin’s way. We imagine he’ll get to as many as he can, though the better the tweet, the more likely a response. Check out this snippet:

“Filmmaker Kevin Smith has some faithful fans, the kind of movie buffs who — at least in the online world — would love to have an all-night chat with Silent Bob, Smith’s movie screen alter ego, ironically named because Smith is anything but silent. In fact, Smith is loquacious enough to fulfill hiskevin-smith1 fans’ desire for nonstop conversation, by planning for a 24-hour Twitter marathon of questions-and-answers on Monday.”

/Film also notes what a big deal this is gonna be.

Get those questions ready — Who knows, maybe we’ll even prep a couple ourselves. We don’t want to say we missed out on this historical event. Neither should you. See you in tweet-land this Monday.