The New York Times reports that AT&T may have influenced the outcome of American Idol by providing free text-messaging services at parties organized by fans of Kris Allen, who won the competition last week. Representatives of AT&T, a corporate sponsor of the show, reportedly taught Allen fans how to "power text" at the parties, allowing them to send multiple messages with a push of a button. Questions remain as to whether power texting violates American Idol voting rules.
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Most of the Adam Lambert fan groups advertised how to powertext, so this seems much ado about nothing.
He is a god singer churchlovematch
Church has nothing to do with how a singer sings…….
Good grief. I shudder to think what the response to this will be from Glambert Nation.
Way to cheat AT&T and Kris fans, way to try to brush it under the carpet Idol powers that be, and way to cast a shadow over any credibility to Allen’s upset win over Lambert.
Lame. And sad.
Another reason American Idol sucks!!
So instead of losing by 20 million, Glambert lost by 40 million. Who cares.
I care,adam won that compititionby a country mile,look at where hes at now,the only thing I hear from Kris is his stupied Ford commercials!!Open your eyes,CHEATERS!!!
oh gosh, here we go again….cant we just let the dust settle and leave it be?
No because it did happen.Even the judges were in awe that he lost by so many votes,when he had it in the bag,and everybody knew it,so do you!!
Adam didn’t/doesn’t need the win. He is a star. Let Kris keep the win and we’ll see who we’re still talkin’ about in 5 years.
RIGHT ON!!
Every single fan group, every single season, publishes the same instructions on how to power-text. This is nothing new. I have no doubt that hundreds…probably even thousands…of Adam fans were power texting too.
I am pretty sure that if you subtracted all the votes from Arkansas, Kris still would have won. There is no way a few (or even a few dozen) free phones made a significant difference in the national vote. This article simply stems from an attempt made by Adam’s fans to diminish Kris’s win.
I think Idol has wanted to avoid announcing that Adam was blown out of the water because it might be embarrassing to him. If Adam’s fans keep trying to undermine the winner, Idol may be forced to reveal to vote counts.
I wish Adam’s fans would get past the denial stage and move on.
YOUR PROBABLY ONE OF THEM THAT HANDED OUT THE PHONES!!!!!!iS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR TOO??????
This is nothing new. AI fans have posted all over the internet for the past few years about “power texting.” If AT&T was able to show some Kris Allen fans from “middle America” how to do it, then it only leveled the playing field as the “power texting” started in California, home of Adam Lambert. So, these so called “Kris Allen Texting Parties” only helped to give Kris Allen’s fans a fair shake. Heck, the Glambert Fans were providing details on how to get phones with area codes from the other side of the country from where they were so that they could text the full 2 hours (4 for the finalé) in each of 2 time zones.
I find it humorous that Mr. Lambert’s fans, many of whom have bragged on open forums that they voted 24,000 times by power texting, are outraged that a few of Mr. Allen’s fans may have learned to do the same by a texting tutorial. If there was any unfair advantage with regards to power texting, it would most certainly go in Mr. Lambert’s favor based on his fans comments on this exact topic in various forums. Mr. Allen had the most voters – period – especially since a large percentage of his fan base doesn’t even know how to text (hence the need for a tutorial). If Mr. Lambert’s fans demand a recount, let them have it. They will then see exactly how many votes were in Kris’ favor.
Adam not only had “power texters” on his side as well, he had a fan-based website with Power Texting Instructions… http://adam-lambert.org/power-texting-with-att/
I want to know how many votes came from Arkansas. PERIOD..That would help. California has a million stars and would not bother with trying to do this..Give us answers and we will let it rest
The only part that bothers me is that they gave them free texting. I bought the GoPhone and the texting package. But if I’d been a Kris fan in Conway, Arkansas, I wouldn’t have had to?
I have unlimited txting and am middle aged. I probably text voted over 5000 times on the finale night plus calling on the phone whenever I could get through which was not much until 11:55 est which I believe is when the California voters got on. I was concerned that all the west coast voters would push Adam over the top because I could rarely get through to vote for Kris. I am from Florida not Arkansas and voted for Kris. Everyone I know wanted Kris to win except my daughter
I think Kris won fair and square as they say!
hahaha wow these Adam fans are sooo bitter… Kris won. By a lot. Cause he was more appealing to America. And really had some amazing performances that people aren’t recognizing: Man in the Mirror, To Make You Feel My Love, Ain’t No Sunshine, She Works Hard For the Money, Falling Slowly, Heartless, What’s Going On… he’s going to go down as the most underrated Idol winner ever and Glambert will be SOO overrated I mean really guys I think Adam is EXTREMELY talented and wish him the best but Kris deserved it MORE than Adam and has a better shot at a promising career in this industry. Personally, I’m planning on buying an understated, smooth Kris Allen album over 12 songs of WAIIIIILING or moody undertones… And I know I’m not alone cause Kris did get more votes than Adam, his fans are just less obnoxious and vocal and don’t need to piss and moan for weeks on end.
Look at record sales, Adam has sold more copies of his cd, even in this economy. Kris ALlen’s album didn’t even make the top 10. And where is Kris now, doing Ford ads!
and where is taylor Hicks?!
Kris is doing Ford ads because it is in the contract for the winner. He also has a top 25 single that gets significant radio play. The difference in album sales is pointless to mention. AI winners NEVER have creative control over their first album (Some Hearts by Carrie Underwood?)