Like every year, the Time person of the year 2010 was something that the world looked forward to. With two techie bests – Mark Zuckerberg and Julian Assange – fighting for the coveted title, the competition was expected to be tough. But the shocker was when Wikileaks owner Julian Assange won the Time Person of the year 2010 according to voting, but the magazine decided to override the results and honoured Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg instead.
39-year-old Julian Assange topped the voting procedure winning 382,026 public votes and an average rating of 92 while Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg was way behind with 18,353 votes and a rating of 52. Strangely, these are not the only two people in the top. Mark Zuckerberg came in tenth with other personalities like Barack Obama (6), Lady Gaga (3) and Glenn Beck (2). There was Sarah Palin and Bill Gates who made it to the top ten as well.
The magazine while announcing the Time person of the year 2010, writes, “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year”.
The world is not taking this lightly considering that the voting process doesn’t lead to the final conclusion. Most people are just angry that the Time Person of the year 2010 was a voting procedure that at the end was overlooked by the editorial bench. Facebook is sure to be humming with talk of this “vote-fixing” of the worst kind.
His social network has grown from being a college centric social network to become the largest online network connecting over 500 million users. The net worth of the company is over $33.7 Billion and has already given Hollywood a great story to make a movie on (The Social Network, 2010). That’s for the entire brand, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout is worth a a staggering $6.9 billion for a 26 year old
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