Tonight Will See Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross overtake Robert Scoble.

It’s going to be a big night for Twitter here in the UK, and it’s all the fault of Andrew Sachs and the Daily Mail

Three months ago, broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross called his answering machine, left a message, and the Daily Mail manufactured outrage over the incident. Brand left the country for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 while Jonathan Ross went and hid in a bunker for his suspension from the Big Brother Corporation (*). And what a jolly few weeks that has been.

Because he found Web 2.0

Specifically he found Twitter, everyone knew it was him, and suddenly the press started to take notice. So there was always a chance that he would talk about the new toy on a TV show. But just to make sure…

…one of the guests tonight is Stephen Fry, and he really uses Twitter. So much so that on a recent TV production he was banned from talking about what he saw because people might not watch the show if he twittered his experiences (yes I rolled my eyes at that bone-headed production team call as well). The two of them had promised (on Twitter) to try and get a mention in, and maybe a ‘live tweet’ on the telly. Following them yesterday, it was apparent that they did talk about it at the recording of the show. Plus Ross’ second guest Tom Cruise will think about signing up as well.

Let’s put this into perspective. If, on national television, one of the biggest influences (Ross) and one of masters of communication (Fry) can describe Twitter in a sentence or two, and how it offers clear access to the two of them and countless others…

If that happens Twitter is going to explode, everyone is going to follow the two of them, and we’ll finally have someone more popular than Scoble on the platform

(*) That joke is Spike Milligan’s.