Twitter: Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year?

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.”

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