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#IdolPremiere

Today was American Idol's season premiere. I used to watch Idol when I was in the US and I used to like the show. It has changed a lot since then. Here is the wordcloud. I removed the words "AmericanIdol" and "season" from the wordcloud because they were just hogging all the space.

There is a change in the algorithm today onward. I have decided to remove retweets as they don't add to the original sentiment. It is debatable whether this is a good decision and I agree that it might be incorrect as retweets show the sentiment of the people even when they didn't originally write it. Let's see how this goes.

I downloaded more than 28K tweets but only around 11K were original and rest 17K were retweets.
JLo rules the show of course. She appears along with the words "love" and "like", which is great for her and the show. In comparison other judges, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban don't show up that many times. Harry Connick returned to the show as a judge for the final season.

Kanye showed up as a contestant. This was staged, of course. Here is his performance if you are interested. That's the reason his name pops up in the wordcloud.



(I have no clue what the word "eduubdedubu" is. I need to figure that out.)

The sentiment was more neutral than positive or negative. This might be because of multiple reasons. But overall, only about 10-11% tweets were negative, which is good news for Idol. The show has been going down in popularity since Simon Cowell left it in  2010. You can read up more about the ratings of the show over 13 seasons here.

 

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