{"id":17302,"date":"2010-12-15T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=17302"},"modified":"2010-12-15T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:41:56","slug":"times-2010-person-of-the-year-is-mark-zuckerberg-but-not-the-reader-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/times-2010-person-of-the-year-is-mark-zuckerberg-but-not-the-reader-favorite","title":{"rendered":"Time’s 2010 Person of the Year Is Mark Zuckerberg, But Not the Reader Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"
Take that Julian Assange!<\/p>\n
While the Wikileaks founder battles it out with Sweden’s courts for his freedom, ironically for (official) accusations of poking someone inappropriately, the man who took a college social network from pokes and sheep to a 500 million member, billion dollar behemoth lands the cover of Time’s person of the year. He beat out Lady Gaga, the Chilean miners, and the Tea Party among others.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Does he deserve the title?<\/p>\n Facebook’s success has been unprecedented. Even when MySpace, and Friendster before them, held the number one network crown, they never got to the user numbers that Facebook has. Even though details on revenue aren’t public, a 2009 estimate put revenue at $800 million, with 2010 revenue expected to grow to $2 billion. The same source of the estimate for the 2009 revenue said that the company had achieved profitability in the “tens of millions” on that. {Reuters<\/a>}<\/p>\n