Mr Zuckerberg was the subject of the 2010 film The Social Network Time magazine has picked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as its annual Person of the Year, the figure it believes had the most influence on events in 2010.
The 26-year-old billionaire was the subject of a 2010 film, The Social Network, charting Facebook’s rise.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier won a Time readers’ poll on 2010’s most influential person.
The annual feature has been a fixture since the 1920s, with the winner appearing on the front cover of Time.
The Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) title is awarded by the magazine’s editors to the figure deemed to have had the most influence on world events that year – not necessarily in a positive way.
Hitler, Stalin and the Ayatollah Khomeini have all won in the past.
In recent years, the title has gone to less controversial figures. In 2009 US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke won it, while US President Barack Obama won it the year before.
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