Surprises Abound on Time Magazines Most Influential List

Who’s the World’s Most Influential Person? The answer is moot.

No, really. Time Magazine asked readers to vote online for the most influential person, and the winner was “moot” — aka Christopher Poole. He’s the founder of 4chan.org, an image-based bulletin board that averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6 million visitors a month. 4chan has spawned other wildly popular sites, such as Lolcats.

moot, real name is Christopher Poole, and at 21 he is the founder of the sprawling Web site 4chan.org, which averages 13 million page views a day. And not to accuse him of hiding behind the Internet, but he doesn't like to have his photo taken.

Poole, a 21-year-old college student, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 out of a possible 100 in the third annual Time 100 poll. That put him way ahead of President Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.

Time.com said its technical team did thwart several attempts to hack the vote, but the results are still like to raise eyebrows.

“I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll,” said Time.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel. “Doubting the results is kind of the point.”

Check out Time.com’s story here, click through the photos above to see where some notable people ranked ,and then see the list of the Most Influential People.

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Surprises Abound on Time Magazines Most Influential List

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