Figure 3
From: Beating the news using social media: the case study of American Idol
Live popularity of the participants to the Top 3 night. The number of tweets related to each one of the Top 3 contestants is plotted as a function of time, from the start of the show (8 PM EST) and the closing of the voting in the West Coast (3 AM EST), on Wednesday May 16, 2012. The data is plotted with the granularity of the minute. The inset magnifies the two hours of the first airing of the show on the East Coast.