UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

I just posted the results from the Pure Dancing with the Stars poll. However, I thought it would also be fun to take a look at other ways of determining who the most popular of the final 3 is (since at this point it really becomes a popularity contest).

I recently posted a list of the Dancing with the Stars twitter accounts. Since then, my stats program has tracked which twitter account link has been clicked on the most. Certainly not a scientific way to determine who is the most popular, but still fun fodder while we wait for tomorrow’s Dancing with the Stars finale.

Here is the ranking according to the number of clicks to the final 3’s twitter accounts:
1. Melissa Rycroft
2. Gilles Marini
3. Shawn Johnson

Interesting, no?

Of course, another way to look at it is by number of followers that each star has on their twitter account. Those would go like this:
1. Shawn Johnson – 6768 Twitter Followers
2.3. Gilles Marini – 1444 Twitter Followers
3.2. Melissa Rycroft – 258 Twitter Followers 4797 Twitter Followers

Granted, Shawn and Gilles definitely are using Twitter more than Melissa. Although, it is interesting that it’s the same as the poll results I just posted previously. [UPDATE: One of my twitter followers informed me that Melissa Rycroft has another twitter account with many more followers. I've updated the post to reflect the difference. I wondered why Melissa wasn't updating the account I knew about. By the way, you can follow this website on Twitter as well.]

Any other cool ways that I should look at who will become the next Dancing with the Stars winner?

UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

I recently invited readers of Pure Dancing with the Stars to vote for the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner. I posted 2 polls asking “Who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner?” and “Who WILL be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 Winner?”

The following are the predictions for will become the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner:

Who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner?

Who WILL be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 Winner?

Looks like Shawn Johnson has a lot to look forward to on the finale of Dancing with the Stars season 8. Although, I have to admit that this has to be the closest race ever in the history of Dancing with the Stars. I said previously that it reminds me of back when Mario Lopez and Joey Fatone were really close.

UPDATE 2: Vote for the Dancing with the Stars 2009 finale couples.

UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

We’re down to the final 3 on Dancing with the Stars 2009 and so it’s time for you to make your voice heard. I don’t think it’s fair to only do one poll. So, I divided it into to polls to allow you to vote for who will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8 and who you want to be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8. Let us know the reasoning for your DWTS 2009 vote in the comments.

Now who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner…

Disclaimer: This is just a fun poll done by Pure DWTS and has no relation to ABC or Dancing with the Stars.

Last week I posted a poll to predict who will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8. The results from the voting is in and I must admit that I’m not surprised by the voting. That’s a bad sign for the show. Unless of course, the Pure Dancing with the Stars readers are wrong, but that has yet to happen on the big things.

Here are the results of the voting for winner of Dancing with the Stars season 8:
Gilles Marini – 43.14%
Shawn Johnson – 20.26%
Melissa Rycroft – 19.61%
Lil’ Kim – 9.80%
Chuck Wicks – 4.58%
Ty Murray – 1.31%
Lawrence Taylor – 1.31%

Looks like people have predicted that Cheryl Burke is going to take home another Mirror Ball Trophy. Gilles dancing definitely deserves it. We’ll see if his and Cheryl’s fans can do their part.

I have to admit that this season of Dancing with the Stars has been one of the hardest seasons to predict. However, I’m really happy to say that the previous Dancing with the Stars voting we did correctly predicted 6 of the top 7 on DWTS 8. The only mistake was the poll chose Steve-O over Lawrence Taylor.

So, I’m putting my trust in the incredible Pure Dancing with the Stars readership to vote for who you think will be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner. You can only vote once for your favorite star below.