http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... The live link. We'll keep this just in case Oprah takes Twitter down. - Robert Scoble

thanks! $100 bucks says fail whale is a definite! - Susan Beebe

I'm betting it will go down. - Roberto Bonini

Dont like Oprah but this is kinda cool :) - Per

is there any place that us foreigners can watch it live? - Orli Yakuel

It's gonna be a make-or-break day for Twitter. - Ron S. Doyle

I can imagine the whole crowd at the studio live tweeting Oprah in the future =D That would be absolutely crazy. Sorry, I meant ridiculous =P - | Balu |

Cool - basically creating your own namespace just for this event, eh? Ah, for the days when the backchannel at conferences was on IRC and everyone was in the same "room", so to speak. - Shane Curcuru

Well considering I have been getting Twitter "over capacity" messages on a regular basis since march madness started. I am afraid. Very afraid. - Jame Ervin

Shane: friendfeed will be the defacto backchannel place from now on. The live comments at http://beta.friendfeed.com rock. - Robert Scoble

What's the Vegas odds on Twitter dropping like a rock during Oprah's show? - Chris Charabaruk

Odds? I wouldn't bet against it! - Karma Martell

@Matthew I still login. Most desktop clients suck. - TheHenry

I still find Tweetdeck to big (I don't have enough screen real estate) but I may have to switch now that I'm following @scobleizer - phew! Twhirl is my current client; nice and smooth and enough features to get by. Twitter website is only for ensuring your profile hasn't been hacked; nothing else. - Shane Curcuru

Hmmm... Twitter's still up. I suspect Robert negotiated a secret deal last night to boost Twitter's capacity with temporary Rackspace cloud servers - a win-win all around. Vaguely disappointed that the big O's first tweet WAS ALL SHOUTING. - Shane Curcuru

thanks for the tip Robert. I'll pass. - Jim: coffee enthusiast

Robert, since you seem to know a lot of people, I'd like to give a tip. I'm sure you've heard it before, but I think this was all a complete publicity stunt by Twitter using @aplusk, @cnnbrk, and @oprah to bring more people. When I can't unfollow @aplusk but I can unfollow anyone else just fine, something is up. I've just deleted my twitter account. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

It totally was a publicity stunt on the part of Twitter. You could have blocked all those people though Mike. The unfollow button didn't work, but the block sure did. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

@Matthwe yeah probably :P - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

@Rob N. yeah but with all the crap that's been going on lately with Twitter coupled with the fact that I hardly use it now anyways, it was the tipping point. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Mike: Right there with ya. If I didn't have the right tools to filter out the noise I would cancel as well. I believe this is the tipping point for the whole of Twitter, and will turn it into a simple medium for people to broadcast, and will deaden the quantity and quality of interpersonal exchange. So...here we are at FriendFeed :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

So much for trying to get peeps to understand that Twitter is more than just a popularity contest. It is my understanding that Twitter temporarily disabled the unfollow button on Kutcher's account to keep people from trying to game the system by following and unfollowing to try and be his 1millionth follower. - Sharon McPherson

I don't necessarily agree with the assumption that Twitter can no longer be depended on as a "tool" Mathew. No matter how many millions flock to Twitter because of it's "new found fame", we still have the option of choosing who we follow and who follows us. - Sharon McPherson

There are 10 kinds of people: those who view Twitter as a tool, and those who view it as the social network they must must must be a part of. Reminds me of intertwingly's "It's just data". It's just a tool. It's all about what you choose to do with it. Like ridiculing Oprah's technology advisers for allowing her to SHOUT OUT ALL OF HER FIRST TWEET. - Shane Curcuru

As of 1:20 pm Pacific time (4:20 pm Eastern) Twitter is up. This is a good stress test for @ev and company. - John E. Bredehoft

I'm choosing to use FF as a tool to make fun of her and her advisors for making her second tweet about ordering lunch LOL! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

You're all so mean! Twitter is perfect for Oprah viewers, because they've never had a thought needing more than ... well, it's sure not 140 characters, I bet. - Stan Scott

Stan, with all due respect to Robert, the unleashing of the Oprah followers on a service is a much more powerful stress test than even the unleashing of the Robert Scoble followers on a service. I'm not sure that Twitter would share it, but it would be fascinating to see the information about Twitter sign-ups and usage over the next few days. - John E. Bredehoft

I don't know. All of this freaking out over who's on twitter and why seems like saying "Duuuuude, Nirvana totally sold out." I don't really care who is on twitter and why. I thought "we" wanted people to have access to information and communication- even if they don't know all of the etiquette yet. I don't want FF to be the record store where the everyone is too cool. - metalerik

+1 Stan....heheh - guruvan (Rob Nelson)