Time Announces "Person of the Year"

A nice, safe, inconsequential choice? Time couldn’t bring themselves to award information distributor, worshipper of hubris, self-styled rockstar Julian Assange the nod, though he dominated Internet voting. Of course, they couldn’t bring themselves to give the award to the tea party even though the tea party changed the course and discourse of a nation in a single year.

I’d say that the guys who founded Twitter should have received this over Zuckerberg as their service worked in conjunction with the tea party movement (from the early days of #dontgo , the hashtag phenomen that preceded the tea party, the #tcot movement which is sandwiched in between, all helping give rise to the modern-day tea party). Twitter was instrumental in the Iranian revolutions and the story of Neda. Facebook doesn’t come close to having as equal of an impact.

Thoughts on the choice?