Update to American Idol Prediction April 24, 2008
My predictions were absolute rubbish, it seems. Apparently, tweets cannot be used to accurately predict who is going home from American Idol. In fact, two of the top three positive tweet-getters were the ones that were unceremoniously in the Bottom Two. Syesha Mercado and Carly Smithson had the least votes after their performances on Tuesday night, despite having the most positive tweets found during my Tweet Scan.
Interestingly, Mercado and Smithson were the two contestants with the fewest positive tweets BEFORE their performances of this week. This may indicate that overall twittering can predict the voting habits of America better than spur of the moment written notions.
Will we ever find a way to predict American Idol? I researched some of the other methods previously mentioned in this post, and none of them predicted a Carly elimination. With that, Fox Television continues to remain a mystery.
