Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20160825030830/@comment-1609742-20160904011022

Yep, followers give a good idea of which acts are popular online, but there's always so much more to consider.

The audience that doesn't follow people on Twitter. The older audience who don't use a lot of technology and thus vote by phone. The percentage of the performer's audience that actually votes. The audience that came directly from AGT versus the pre-AGT audience.

It's also important to note that there is usually a relationship between how talented an act actually is with their followers. For the most part, the more talented people will get more followers. But acts like danger acts or acrobats never pull in as much followers as singers or comedians since it's harder to share jokes and/or songs online. Yet sometimes those danger/acrobat acts pull in more votes.