American Idol is essentially a popularity contest with karaoke, but there haven’t been many opportunities to quantify the contestants’ popularity except for actual votes received. However, this season, Fox has given each of the semi-finalists an official/controlled Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook profile, and a web site has aggregated how many followers each semi-finalist has.
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Andrew Garcia, John Park lead Idols in social networking followers; Lee Dewyze gained more
