Is Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'...Twitter?
Posted Mon, 11/16/2009 - 16:28 by Wired
Once upon a time Time magazine picked a "Man of the Year" to ensure a guaranteed big story in the often lacklustre holiday season. That honour became a "Person of the Year" in 1981, when a man won anyway. It was a long overdue fix since Time had named "American Women" as its "Man of the Year" in 1975 - there apparently being not a solo woman with sufficient gravitas on the planet that year.
This year, foliomag reports, the six "Person"-choosing panel was split in a recent brainstorming session between The Economy and Twitter as 2009's winnerSee original: Is Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'...Twitter?
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