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If you read my previous post you would know Snoop Dogg was live on Ustream.TV last night. He was live for quite a while, about 200-250 viewers were watching the show and around the same amount of users were in the chat room. The only thing was is that the Ustream chat room was getting pounded to the ground with comments and allot of spam too.

That many users shouldn’t slow things down but, it was. The video was freezing off and on and from what I can tell it was because the chat room. I know that many users at one time doesn’t sound like allot and you might think it was my connection though, I have some pretty good downs and ups. According to Speedtest I can download a 800 mb movie in about 6 minutes. Check it out for your self:

I spoke with two of the chat room moderators about it. Mazy and SNOOPDOGGTV both told me they were on top of it and they would have a new chat room up tomorrow.

Well it’s 9:30 am PST and I see they do in fact have a new chat room up. Wow! That was fast.

The only thing is, it’s not the run of the mill chat rooms, it’s a tweet chat room. Something called Twitter Search Widget from TweetGrid. Basically it just ties into the Twitter API and pulls out any @snoopdogg tweets and instantly updates them into the widget live time. It looks really simple and clean. I like it! There is even a login form so users can log into Twitter directly from the widget while never having to leave the Ustream Snoop Dogg Live show.

I have not actually seen it in action yet, so I am eager to see how it works with some heavy traffic.

Ten minutes after Snoop left, in came a huge group of viewers. There was now about 650 viewers and the chat room was still buzzing along at light speed. You could barely read what anybody was saying it was going so fast. Funny thing is that those extra 400 viewers didn’t actually get to see Snoop.

If you missed the show this time then consider picking up Snoop’s latest album instead: