of mark zuckerberg is time's 2010 person of the year ... not julian assange

Mark Zuckerberg TIME's 2010 Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg was selected to be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Although poll results indicated that Julian Assange led the pack with 382026 votes, TIME's editors reserve the right to disagree poll results as pointed out by someone.


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Mark Zuckerberg came in 10th spot in the polls with 18353 votes.

The list of candidates were: Julian Assange, Glenn Beck, David Cameron, The Chilean Miners, Arne Duncan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jonathan Franzen, Lady Gaga, Robert Gates, Tony Hayward, Hu Jintao, LeBron James, Steve Jobs, Hamid Karzai, David and Charles Koch, Liu Xiaobo, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, The Unemployed American, J. Craig Venter, Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair, Mark Zuckerberg.


Julian Assange on TIME cover page based on poll results. [photo via reddit]

Current poll results.

TIME managing editor Rick Stengel interviews Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.

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 all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.

Mark Zuckerberg, TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. [photo via TIME]