Election updates rocketed from Digg, Twitter, Politico.com and elsewhere to screens in club packed with young voters feverishly tuned into the Internet Age platform that Al Gore built.

Conversations competing with tunes mixed by hot DJ Diplo were drowned out by cheers each time the former US vice president`s Current TV flashed updates showing Democrat Barack Obama inching closer to the presidency.

A Twitter scrolled across the bottom of the Current TV screen read: `The Republican fire wall has been washed away ... victory is within Obama`s grasp.`

Current TV`s election night bash in a nightclub two blocks from its San Francisco offices was a precious ticket in this Internet-oriented city on the edge of Silicon Valley.

`It`s fabulous,` said Melinda Winter, who works for local chocolatier Ghirardelli. `I don`t know if it`s an Internet movement or a grass roots movement enabled by the Internet.`

Digg founder Kevin Rose and members of his crew broadcast from a corner of the club, serving up election night stories that climbed to the top of his website, where rankings of news accounts are determined by votes by users.

In Internet-Age multi-tasking fashion, people in the crowd were making personal connections while tracking election night progress on mobile telephones and wall-mounted screens streaming Current`s online feed.

`We have 50 people lining the halls at Current tonight; we just turned it over to them,` Current TV chief operating officer Joanna Drake-Earl told AFP above the din.

`This is a perfect way for the 18 to 34-year-olds to be connected with the election. They want to share what they think with friends, listen to music, see the Twitters and what`s happening online.`

Champagne bottles were being readied as an unabashedly pro-Obama crowd hoped that Obama would rout Republican John McCain and symbolically vanquish US President George W. Bush, who beat Gore in a controversial close election in 2000.

Gore founded Current TV after leaving politics.

`People thought Current was going to be Al Gore`s opposite of a Fox News network,` Drake-Earl said.

`That`s not what it is about. We work hard for balance because we want to spark debate.`

Current TV features short programs, some uploaded to its website by users, and has won Emmy awards since going live in August of 2005.