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Twitter: Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year?
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Nov 25, 2009 12:24pm |
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| Author | John C. Abell |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was “You” once. So, why not Twitter?
Once upon a time Time magazine picked a “Man of the Year” to ensure a guaranteed big story in the often lackluster holiday season. That honor became a “Person of the Year” in 1981, when a man won anyway. Anyway, it was a long overdue fix since Time had in 1975 named “American Women” as its “Man of the Year,” there apparently being not a solo woman with sufficient gravitas on the planet that year.
Some may argue that things really went off the rails in 1982, when “The Computer” got the nod. Since then a fair amount of non-persons have won: The Endangered Earth (1988), The Peacemakers (1993), The Whistleblowers (2002), The Good Samaritans (2005) and, of course, You, in 2006, whenTime wrote “It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace.”
This year, foliomag reports, six “Person”-choosing panelists were split in a recent brainstorming session between The Economy and Twitter as 2009’s “Person.”
“Twitter affects a lot of people, but not as many as the economy,” former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani (Man of the Year, 2001) is reported to have said. “From the wealthy to the poor who are out of jobs, the economy affects us all.”
It must be noted that Time did not see fit to cite the economy during the worst patch this country has faced until now, though President Franklin D. Roosevelt did win three times during the Great Depression. |
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