The PeekScores of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year

12/02/2013 by Matt Q Comments

In 1927, Time Magazine selected transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh as their first ever “Man of the Year” (a distinction later made less blatantly politically wrong and renamed “Person of the Year”).

Since then they have annually selected a person — and sometimes an object, concept, or group of people — that they believe “for better or for worse” has had the greatest impact on that year’s events. From Martin Luther King, Jr. to Adolph Hitler, from Mark Zuckerberg to Pope John Paul II to the “The Middle Americans,” their selections have run the gamut from the clearly deserved to the esoteric, and have frequently been the stuff of controversy. With yet another year upon this planet coming to a close, and another “Person if the Year” issue inevitably upon us at month’s end, it seemed timely (no pun) to do a PeekScore list of this nature.

The ten names below are the ten still living recipients of this sometimes dubious honor who have — at this moment in time — made the most profound impacts in cyberspace. We’ve measured them on our PeekScore scale, not to assess their values as humans, nor even their respective degrees of global fame in the grandest senses, but to gauge their digital footprints.

Rank	Name	Year(s)	PeekScore
1	Barack Obama	2008 & 2012	10.00 / 10.00
2	George W. Bush	2000 & 2004	10.00 / 10.00
3	Mark Zuckerberg	2010	10.00 / 10.00
4	Vladimir Putin	2007	9.53 / 10.00
5	Bill Clinton	1992 & 1998	9.52 / 10.00
6	Pope Francis	2013	9.08 / 10.00
7	Ben Bernanke	2009	9.07 / 10.00
8	Rudolph Giuliani	2001	8.85 / 10.00
9	Jeffery Bezos	1999	8.08 / 10.00
10	David Ho	1996	7.36 / 10.00
11	Andrew Grove	1997	7.22 / 10.00

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