Oprah to conduct first live chat on Facebook

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Talk show queen Oprah  Winfrey will be doing her first-ever live chat with social  media website Facebook on Thursday, Sept 8.

Facebook users can tune into the hour-long live video chat  on the site at 1:30 pm edt, and can leave questions for Winfrey  on the page wall created for the event.
The 57 year-old Winfrey has embraced social media. She has  almost 6.3 million fans on Facebook and more than 7.2 million  followers on Twitter.

Winfrey hosted the final season of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”  in May this year. She continues to host a prime-time show on  the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) television channel, which  launched at the beginning of this year.