Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

I haven’t watched much of Amer­i­can Idol. I’m really not a fan of the sign­ing but I am a fan of using social media to pre­dict pop­u­lar­ity con­tests. So lets give it a go.

First lets look at sen­ti­ment. Seems my taste for indie rock (and not pop bal­lads) isn’t shared by every­one. Sen­ti­ment for these folks is pretty darn pos­i­tive. And pos­i­tive in almost the exact same num­bers. Bow­er­sox get’ one per­cent­age point on DeWyze. And neg­a­tive sen­ti­ment is exactly the same.

But the story doesn’t end there. Since this is a pop­u­lar­ity con­test, the win­ner is going to need more buzz about them.

And it looks like over time DeWyze has had an advan­tage over Bow­er­sox. And last week DeWyze was able make sig­nif­i­cant gains.

Look­ing at the per­cent­age of posts ratio, in com­bi­na­tion with a tie on sen­ti­ment, I think this is pretty safe call for DeWyze. So I’m going on record here for DeWyze.