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When President Barack Obama takes the podium to discuss his first 100 days in office tonight, he'll not only be broadcast live on six different networks, but also live streamed on both YouTube Inc. and Hulu LLC .

At 8 p.m. EDT, YouTube will stream the conference on the White House's channel, and Hulu will stream it from its Obama news page (see left), which right now features a dramatic countdown to the event.

Broadcast TV networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC will also all be airing the conference. Shockingly, Fox will instead be airing an episode of Lie to Me, which it calls a "compelling new drama from the producers of 24."

In a statement, Fox said that at 8 p.m. it will direct viewers to watch the conference on Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network with an on-screen graphic.

In other news:

Twitter Inc. 's low audience retention rate may stand in the way of its growth, according to a report from The Nielsen Co. According to Nielsen, more than 60 percent of Twitterers fail to return after one month, and this 40 percent retention rate will limit the site's growth to about a 10 percent reach figure. Alarmingly, Nielsen adds that even when Facebook and MySpace were as young as Twitter, their retention rates were twice as high. Even more alarming: The Alley Insider reports that Oprah could be the next Twitterer to lose interest -- her Tweets are already rapidly dwindling since she first signed up, with not a peep out of her in more than four days... NOOOOOO!!!!

Some Twitterers (Tweeters? Twits?) are here to stay, however, according to New York Magazine. The mag ranked Twitter personalities on a Twitter approval matrix, from news-sharing to navel-gazing and from insightful to insipid. Some of the more insightful Tweeters are The Office's Mindy Kaling and PressThink's Jay Rosen, while ever-popular Ashton Kutcher and gossip blogger Perez Hilton are ranked insipid. Go figure.

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