Facebook Fans / Twitter Followers comparisons
In my never ending search for more graphs to create, I have taken the number of Facebook fans and Twitter followers for each contestant (using their official AI sanctioned accounts) and put them into a stacked bar graph sorted by the total of both of them. The numbers seem fairly indicative of total votes since the two remaining contestants who were in the bottom 3 last week (Karen Rodriguez and Haley Reinhart) have two of the three lowest counts for Facebook fans and Twitter followers, with the third being Naima Adedapo. All three of them have less than 10,000 Twitter followers and 3,000 or less Facebook fans. It will be interesting to see if they are the bottom three for this week. And as expected the top four contestants in terms of online fans are all male, specifically Scotty McCreery, Casey Abrams, Paul McDonald and James Durbin. James is unusual because he has the second highest number of FaceBook fans behind Scotty, but is actually #7 in terms of Twitter behind not only Scotty, Casey and Paul, but also behind the top three ladies. He seems to have a FaceBook heavy fan base with only twice as many Twitter followers as Facebook fans, whereas most contestants have 3 or 4 times as many Twitter followers. The other unusual contestant is Scotty who leads the pack in both categories and with a whopping 22,000 FaceBook fans. The top three ladies, Lauren Alaina, Thia Megia and Pia Toscano, all have very similar numbers, which bodes well for them all getting into the Top 10, but cracking past any of the top 4 guys will be a challenge.