Which of 2013’s Biggest Newsmakers is the Most Prominent in Cyberspace?
This is not an endorsement nor indictment of a single one of them. We offer no opinion on any of it. This is just where these individuals — whom, for better or for worse, made their marks this year — stand, at this moment in time, on the PeekScore scale.
We know we’ve not included everyone we could have, so feel free to comment and raise a fuss. Also, if curious regarding anyone accidentally omitted, we encourage you to seek them out on PeekYou directly.
| Rank | Picture | Name | Bio | Current PeekScore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Miley Cyrus | Pop singer who made headlines for dancing in a bathing suit while making a funny face | 10.00 / 10.00 |
| 2 |  |
Barack Obama | President of the United States | 10.00 / 10.00 |
| 3 |  |
Kim Jong Un | Supreme Leader of North Korea | 10.00 / 10.00 |
| 4 |  |
LeBron James | Professional Basketball Player for the NBA’s Miami Heat | 9.91 / 10.00 |
| 5 |  |
Edward Snowden | Former CIA employee who leaked classified information to the press | 9.58 / 10.00 |
| 6 |  |
Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | 9.53/ 10.00 |
| 7 |  |
Angela Merkel | Chancellor of Germany | 9.48 / 10.00 |
| 8 |  |
Nelson Mandela (deceased) | Anti-apartheid revolutionary, and former president of South Africa | 9.45 / 10.00 |
| 9 |  |
Bashar Assad | President of Syria | 9.26 / 10.00 |
| 10 |  |
Pope Francis | Leader of the Catholic Church | 9.08 / 10.00 |
| 11 |  |
Paul Walker (deceased) | Tragically killed star of The Fast and the Furious film franchise | 9.00 / 10.00 |
| 12 |  |
Manti T’eo | NFL player who, while still a college star, made headlines for his online relationship with a woman who it turned out didn’t exist | 8.99 / 10.00 |
| 13 |  |
Jimmy Fallon | Host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, soon to take over NBC’s The Tonight Show | 8.98 / 10.00 |
| 14 |  |
Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | 8.87 / 10.00 |
| 15 |  |
George Zimmerman | Controversially acquitted in the shooting of 17 year-old, Trayvon Martin | 8.84 / 10.00 |
| 16 |  |
John Boehner | Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives | 8.61 / 10.00 |
| 17 |  |
Paula Deen | Chef and TV Host whose past prejudiced remarks came back to haunt her | 8.56 / 10.00 |
| 18 |  |
Chris Christie | Governor of New Jersey | 8.37 / 10.00 |
| 19 |  |
Christine Lagarde | Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund | 8.37 / 10.00 |
| 20 |  |
Ted Cruz | U.S. Senator from Texas | 8.36 / 10.00 |
| 21 |  |
Rob Ford | Mayor of Toronto | 8.33 / 10.00 |
| 22 |  |
Dick Costolo | CEO of Twitter | 8.20 / 10.00 |
| 23 |  |
Phil Robertson | Patriarch of the family featured on hit reality series, Duck Dynasty. Made controversial comments regarding his feelings on homosexuality. | 8.20 / 10.00 |
| 24 |  |
Alice Munro | Nobel Prize winning author | 8.20 / 10.00 |
| 25 |  |
Oscar Pistorius | Double-amputee Olympic track star, charged in the murder of his girlfriend | 8.16 / 10.00 |
| 26 |  |
Hassan Rouhani | President of Iran | 8.16 / 10.00 |
| 27 |  |
Rand Paul | U.S. Senator from Kentucky | 8.15 / 10.00 |
| 28 |  |
Jodi Arias | Defendant in the high profile, controversial trial for the 2008 murder of Travis Alexander | 8.11 / 10.00 |
| 29 |  |
Kathleen Sebelius | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | 8.09 / 10.00 |
| 30 |  |
Dzokhar Tsarnaev | Alleged Boston Marathon bomber | 8.09 / 10.00 |
| 31 |  |
Jeff Bezos | CEO of Amazon | 8.08 / 10.00 |
| 32 |  |
Malala Yousafzai | Teenaged, Pakistani anti-Taliban activist and blogger | 8.03 / 10.00 |
| 33 |  |
Vince Gilligan | Creator of Breaking Bad | 8.00 / 10.00 |
| 34 |  |
Janet Yellen | Vice Chairperson of the Federal Reserve Bank | 7.81 / 10.00 |
| 35 |  |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces | 7.54 / 10.00 |
| 36 |  |
Reed Hastings | CEO of Netflix | 7.38 / 10.00 |
| 37 |  |
Edith Windsor | DOMA plaintiff, and one of the faces of the ongoing marriage equality fight | 7.16 / 10.00 |
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