Is there a correlation between the number of Twitter followers and the number of votes a candidate receives on American Idol?

1. Can Twitter Predict the Winner of
American Idol?
Presented by: Kat Lindsay

2. Hypothesis:
 Is there a correlation between the number of Twitter
followers and the number of votes a candidate
receives on American Idol?

3. Process:
 We will track the # of followers the day of each
elimination round to see who is leading and lagging
and use this # to predict who stays and who leaves
the show.

4.  Slide 6 shows the # of followers the afternoon after
the top 10 were chosen on March 7th.
 This slide show will be updated each week to track
the progress.

5.  Angie Miller has a clear lead over most of the other
contestants, the next closest is Lazaro.
 Angie appears to be the front runner to win Idol if the
correlation between Twitter followers and votes on
the show exists.

6. Twitter Followers: March 8th

7. Twitter Followers: March 14th

8. Results for March 14th Show
 Angie, Candice and Kree were all in the top three
after the results show this Thursday night at 8pm
 Lazaro made it to #4
 Curtis, with the lowest followings was cut in this
weeks show, backing up the hypothesis stated in the
previous slide.
 These results reflect that the more Twitter followers a
contestant has, the less chance they have of getting
kicked off in the results show.

9. Twitter Followers: March 21st

10. Results for March 21st Show
 Based purely on current follower counts, our top
three should be Angie, Lazaro, and Kree.
 While Amber, Devin and Paul with the lowest amount
of followers all should be headed to the bottom
three.
 With the results in we see that Paul Jolley was
eliminated in this week’s show.
 One of the contestants with a very low following on
Twitter.

11. Stay Tuned for
next week’s results!
Who Will Win?