This list is in. Time has released its annual Time 100 list, honoring the most influential people in the world. There are a lot of interesting names including Sarah Palin and President Obama, but let’s focus on the names from the tech sphere.
Moot (the creator of 4chan), Jeff Bezos, The Twitter Guys, Sam & Dan Houser, Jack Ma, Robin Chase, Nathaniel Silver, Nandan Nilekani, and Shai Agassi have all been included. And some of their write-ups are really interesting because of their authors. For example, Moot is written up by the man perhaps now best known for being the “Rick” in the “Rick Roll”, Rick Astley. The “Twitter Guys” (founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey) are written up by Ashton Kutcher, the first Twitter user with a million followers. And Jeff Bezos is written up by Bill Gates.
Here’s a line from the Twitter story that will no doubt infuriate those that hate Twitter:
Years from now, when historians reflect on the time we are currently living in, the names Biz Stone and Evan Williams will be referenced side by side with the likes of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Philo Farnsworth, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
In his profile of Moot, Astley admits that at first he was a bit embarrassed by the phenomenon of Rick Rolling, but then embraced it. Oddly, he spends almost the entire article talking about himself. He also uses the word “bonkers.” 4chan dominated the online voting portion for the Time 100 list, to win it easily and his followers even manipulated the 20 runners-up to make a joke. But Time kept its promise to honor the winner.
[photo: Robyn Twomey for TIME]
Jack get no PR love. what’s up with that?
i notice that and i been commenting on that for awhile. he should be the main guy in that pic above it was his idea to start twitter to begin with.
times 100, forbes 500, their dad’s 1000
Looks like it will go beyond 15 min for the twitter gang
tick tick tick tick…
LOL, Twitter != telephone.
Check your ego at the door, please.
Ok, everybody can feel that Twitter is going down, ok? Oprah was the jump the shark moment, ok? It is only down for Twitter from here. Such is the word of Sanjay.
I thought the entry for moot was gamed by 4chan /b/tards.
it was
ALL the results are bogus and were gamed — the techcrunch article even concedes as much, linking to their earlier article: http://www.tech...r-the-time-100/
Uh yeah, the Time list included one person from the online poll — moot. The rest of the list had nothing to do with that.
indeed. Shai agassi? heh. why not madoff? or
this story from last month, no?
http://tinycomb...uential-people/
twitcrunch… anyone else tired of seeing pictures of @ev always looking awkward?
the funniest part of the list is that next to each persons photo is the ubiquitous “1 rule of flat stomach” cpc ad.
I think the article is hilarious. Ashton Kutcher must love taking his prose taken so seriousl.y
Biz Stone and Evan Williams are to Alexander Graham Bell as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are to Adolf Hitler.
Moot essentially got Rickrolled. Love it.
Thumbs up for Twiiter creators!!
These guys are really creating great buzz in online world
Breaking News. Twitter.com is worth 13 billion now, revised from 12 billion.
4chan is worth 1 billion due to constant media coverage, huge growth, and largest collection of pornography. keep buying dips in stock market & make money http://iamned.com/blog/no recession.
Someone please ban this idiot.
This years’ list didnt had many suprises. Even the fact that Steve Jobs is not in the list can be explained…
The fact that the 4Chan crew got Moot the the top of the online poll is just more proof that he is influential. Add that to the long list of internet memes that 4chan kicked into gear and I would say that he deserved to be on the list. So what if the list was gamed. They influenced it. They were influential.
Nielsen reported more than 60% of Twitter users quit after a month of joining… hopefully this would mean we’re going to see more meaningful conversations and beneficial use in the Twitterverse…
For a well-rounded wrap-up on the matter, see http://www.news...eeting_fleeting
Well what can I say?
Congrats to all. They did deserve it ,after I saw few profiles.
Cool to see Twitter on there, love it or hate it…it has been hugely influential.
I just read this and made me wonder!
4chan altered the times 100 most influ. people
http://www.foxn...,518206,00.html
I just can’t believe Ashton’s advisors let him write that, or that he let his advisors write that, or whatever. It just makes him look so…
profound?
Looks like it will go beyond 15 min for the twitter gang
Cool to see Twitter on there .