San Francisco - After being compared to a Teletubby gone mad, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak turned to Facebook and Twitter Tuesday to help him survive the first round of the popular TV show Dancing With The Stars.

Wozniak debuted in the show Monday night in a playful appearance that saw him twirling a feather boa and performing a cha-cha-cha with professional dancer Karina Smirnoff.

Uber-geek Wozniak, 58, moved with little grace and earned low marks and stinging assessments from the judges panel.

"It was like a Teletubby going mad at a gay pride parade," said Italian judge Bruno Tolioni, while judge Len Goodman said "overall it was a complete disaster."

The judges gave the pair a miserable 13 points out of a possible 30 on the show, but Wozniak reached out Tuesday to his geek fans on the social networking site Facebook and the mobile-blogging site Twitter to drum up the popular votes that could him advance.

The Facebook page, Vote for Woz, had more than 1,600 members and VoteWoz on Twitter had more than 1,000 followers Tuesday. Wozniak pushed his effort on his own website, woz.org.

"Your support has made a huge difference in my outlook and transition from fear to enjoyment, at least so far," Wozniak wrote. "If you think that you cannot possibly dance or that you are the world's worst dancer, I'm going to show that it's not true."

Wozniak will find out next week if his efforts to court the online vote were successful, but clearly he hopes that his tech advantage will carry him through.

"This is most incredibly fun thing I've ever done," said Wozniak on the show. "Nerds can dance!"