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,...
Continue ReadingFor the second part of my study concerning whether tweets from Twitter could be used to predict the losing contestants of American Idol, I decided to wait until noon to make sure that there were enough new tweets to equal the amount used in the analysis last week. Fortunately, there were more than enough fresh,...
Continue ReadingOnce again, the Internet is abuzz with predictions and theories about who is going to win American Idol. In the early days of the competition (back when Kelly Clarkson was still a nobody singing karaoke and we only hypothesized that we hated the British without actually knowing it through Simon Cowell),...
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