Was "Britain's Got Talent" (#bgt) Hollie Steele result a Fix tonight - Twitter thinks so....

The background - on Britain's Got Talent tonight (thats the show that the very viral Susan Boyle is in, final is tomorrow night) a little girl (Hollie Steele) sings, breaks down onstage and is then given another go (not a thing given to any other performers, I add). At the end of the show, the format is that the highest public voted act goes straight through to the Final, but the next two most popular get to have the 3 judges decide which one of them goes through. She comes joint second with a guy who can sing both voices in "Barcelona".

The 3 judges put the little girl through, and they admit its largely as a sympathy vote, over the other act.

The little girls's bravery makes the nightly news in a sympathetic light.

So far so good.

However, the Twitterstream, which has been following Britains Got Talent (#bgt) in big numbers, goes apoplectic at this point - the general feeling (running at about 50:1 as best I can gauge* ) is that this is a fix (thats a polite term), so this result is definitely not a reflection of the public's - or at least the Twittering public's - view.

(Just look at the #bgt stream from about 22.20 for the next 20 minutes - Update: nay, 4 hours - or so)

In the past you would never have seen this feedback, now its very visible in both numbers and points of view, in real time.

This is very interesting, I await to see what happens next - this is a precursor of what I think will be a very disruptive trend, when the realtime response is massively different to the (stage managed?) "user generated choice" shows' results - and then other shows.

* I had another look the next morning, there has been a rise in the defenders but the vast majority - and we are talking thousands of twts here now - felt that either (i) no second chance as its unfair and/or (ii) sing, but don't go through. What is interesting is that - so far - none of this has been picked up in the "official" media despite protests on any comment site going - Facebook groups, BBC and Newspaper online readers pages, the YouTube clips etc. I wonder if this is another reason why Mainstream Media is failing - it genuinely is not reflecting what people actually think, but runs to an agenda from someplace else?