Idol Tweets: A fake Adam Lambert, an earnest Michael Sarver, more.

For fans trying to keep up with Adam, Kris and the other American Idol finalists on tour, the social networking service Twitter is making it surprisingly easy. This year, many of the singers have been checking in with fans via tweets. Turns out that 9 out of 10 have Twitter accounts, and several of them are very active on the social networking service.

But the one Idolist you can't currently find on Twitter? That would be Adam Lambert. He had an account but it was hacked and now someone has been masquerading as him on the service. And doing a passable job of it too. Even hacked and sparsely updated (only 31 posts), Adam's compromised account dwarfs the rest of the Idol finalists' accounts in terms of followers.

After the break, we've got Twitter stats for each of the AI finalists, as well as some gay-supportive tweeting by possibly the least likely of Idolists! 

As of noon, July 22, 2009 here's how this year's Idol Top 10 stack up on Twitter...

The hijacked Adam Lambert account has 114,000 (followers) with only 31 updates posted

Michael Sarver:   (14,000) 963

Matt Giraud:  (41,000) 458

Anoop Desai:  (39,000) 355

Scott MacIntyre:  (17,000) 279

Danny Gokey:  (85,000) 249

Allison Iraheta:  (31,000) 75

Kris Allen:  (64,000) 43

Lil Rounds  (3,413) 4

Megan Joy "Caw Caw" Corkrey: (6,500) 3

A few observations. First, Lil and Megan's tweet output is just plain sad. I mean they're being far outpaced by Scott McIntyre even. And he's blind! Kris Allen also seems not fully invested in Twitter as a way to connect with fans.

The most avid Tweeter in the group by far is Michael Sarver, who posted an Adam Lambert-supportive tweet responding to the Westboro Baptist Church's protest (of Adam) outside the recent San Jose concert...

"Funny how people think it's a good idea to mess with a big Texan and his [American Idol] family." "Adam is just fine, shakes it off and so should we."

Sarver went on to elaborate about that post and the anti-gay protesters that prompted it in an interview for The Chapparal:

Q: Are there any pet peeves you have?
SARVER: My biggest pet peeve – and it’s becoming my biggest pet peeve out on the road – is hate. I hate hate. I hate it. I cannot wrap my mind around people who make a decision to hate someone. You have to make a mental choice to hate someone, and people make that choice, and it blows me away. There are things that have been said about me, which I can get over, usually. There are things that have been said about Adam that are ridiculous. My biggest pet peeve is how someone, just as human as the guy next to him, can choose to hate that guy just for being a different person. It’s unbelievable, and I don’t know if we’ll ever get it completely stumped out, but I’m gonna try. 

Q: Going down the same line, I wanted to ask you about Twitter. It breaks the fourth wall, obviously. How do you feel about that?
SARVER: Sure, well, Twitter’s cool because we get to communicate on a personal level with each other. The other night when we were in San Jose, we had some people standing outside and protesting, saying some ugly things about certain contestants. And right immediately, because of Twitter, I was able to say something to them. I know that they think that I’m on their side, but I’m not on that side. They’re going to find me embarrassing them if they keep on [protesting]. Honestly, you can write that, print that, tell them all, because if I keep catching them showing up at these shows, I’m going to say something. There’s no sense in it.

Surprised by Sarver's obliquely gay-supportive comments? I know I was. Good for him! I guess that means we can forgive him for that unfortunate web video that surfaced during the competition which had him explaining how he and Danny Gokey loved each other, but only in a "Godly way."

But no matter how gay supportive he may be, he's still in the doghouse for sporting flip flops to his Motown week meeting with mentor Smokey Robinson! Smokey's a legend, so would it have hurt to wear close-toe shoes?