What percentage of votes cast on American Idol was via text messaging?
 It's OK to use just this past year's results.

Hi! Thanks for the question.

According to Telescope, the company that takes care of voting for
American Idol, there were 580 million combined toll-free and mobile
votes.

Source: http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=8562&ret=news.aspx&cat=Business


Cingular meanwhile, a partner of Telescope for American Idol, mentions
that text messaging for this season is pegged at 64.5 million. So
11.12% of voting was done via SMS or text messaging.

Source: http://www.slashphone.com/113/4410.html 


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Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 22 Sep 2006 06:21 PDT

Note: All figures are for this season.

I almost forgot about this until I saw my bank statement with the bill
for this payment.  Thanks very much for the answer.

I didn't realize the answer would be posted so quickly, and I didn't
realize it would be found so easily.  It's my first time posting a
question on Answers.  I wasn't sure if anyone would have answered so
quickly if I offered only $1 or $2.

I did get the answer I was looking for, so it was well worth it. 
Thanks very much, easterangel.

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i often see comments similar to this, and it always puzzles me.  since
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what i guess you mean is, it isn't worth $10 to YOU, but luckily no
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-cab

Hi!

Please take note of the question...

"What percentage of votes cast on American Idol was via text messaging?
 It's OK to use just this past year's results."

In the answer the total votes cast via toll-free number and SMS was
given. These are the only ways you can vote on American Idol. Next the
total number of SMS alone was provided and this enables us to give the
percentage.

Plus the data was current meaning numbers for this season instead of
just past year's figures.

Regards.

You are welcome manny88131-ga!