Fox gave the American Idol contestants individual Twitter accounts this year and some people think it could spoil the results. The thinking is that you can judge the popularity of the contestants and therefore the order they’ll be eliminated by the number of followers they have. When asked about it, Idol executive producer Ken Warwick brushed it off saying, “I don’t read Twitter, so I can’t really say.” For what it’s worth, last week’s bottom three have three of the four lowest follower numbers and Ashton Jones, who was eliminated, has the fewest overall. Here are the contestants ranked by their followers, with their totals as of last night:
Casey Abrams – 29,878 followers
Scotty McCreery – 28,818 followers
Paul McDonald – 24,467 followers
Lauren Alaina – 21,029 followers
Thia Megia – 20,650 followers
Pia Toscano -19,670 followers
James Durbin – 19,010 followers
Stefano Langone – 17,147 followers (He made the Top 13 as a wildcard. America didn’t vote him in.)
Jacob Lusk – 11,437 followers
Karen Rodriguez – 10,621 (She was in the Bottom Three last week.)
Haley Reinhart – 10,467 (She was in the Bottom Three last week.)
Naima Adedapo – 9,720 (She made the Top 13 as a wildcard. America didn’t vote her in.)
Ashthon Jones – 6,652 (She was the judges’ third wild card, and she was eliminated last Thursday.)
So if this holds true, Naima is out this week, and Karen and Haley would probably be back in the Bottom Three.
