Mark Zuckerberg Named TIME Person of the Year

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was titled TIME Person of the Year on Wednesday.

TIME managing application Rick Stengel prefabricated the declaration on NBC's "Today Show."

The magazine's editors yearly study an individualist or assemble of grouping who hit had the most impact on the year's programme to be Person of the Year.

Zuckerberg, 26, is the US creator of the Facebook ethnic networking website, which has an estimated 500 meg users worldwide.

He was the person of this year's smash flick "The Social Network," which conventional sextet Golden Globe nominations Tuesday.

He is also a celebrity philanthropist, pledging to provide absent jillions of dollars to benevolence recently.

TIME's editors definite against mass the online readers' enquiry for who should be Person of the Year; in that poll, Zuckerberg vex discover disputable WikiLeaks honcho statesman Assange, who had won the reader's pick with over 380,000 votes. Zuckerberg also vex discover Turkic maturity rector Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who conventional 233,639 votes in the online poll. 

Lady Gaga came in ordinal among readers, who voted 1,249,425 times, TIME entrepot announced. Zuckerberg was ordinal in the reader's choice.

Last year's Person of the Year was U.S. agent Reserve chair Ben Bernanke. US President Barack Obama was the acquirer in 2008.

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