[tedks]

Miley Cyrus is currently winning, and probably will win. This isn't the NSA hacking Time or any other conspiracy. Miley Cyrus is more popular than Edward Snowden, and more people are likely to want Miley Cyrus to win than Edward Snowden.

This entire poll is, like any poll, a popularity contest. If you think Edward Snowden is more popular than Miley Cyrus, then you're far too isolated and need to leave the tech bubble to talk to some humans.

[casual_slacker]

I was about to vote for Snowden, but the irony of having to "connect with facebook" put me off.

[cbr]

The stats I see are:

    Cyrus:
      Yes:  4.7k
      No:  16.5k

    Snowden:
      Yes: 35.5k
      No:   2.3k

This poll does seem to support the claim that Edward Snowden is more popular than Miley Cyrus.

[tedks]

This seems to contradict earlier reports in this thread, so there's probably a lot of volatility due to Time removing what they see as fraud. I stand by my original prediction[0], however.

[0] http://predictionbook.com/predictions/22251 (I feel 80% certain but am correcting this to 70% for obvious reasons)

[socillion]

The Time poll for person of the year is notorious for being rigged. In 2009, 4chan got moot to the top, in addition spelling out "marblecake also the game" with the first initials of the 21 top nominees. [1]

In 2012, something similar was done [2].

2013? Yup. http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-c...

Anyway, my point is that the Time poll isn't even a reflection of popularity.

The 2013 article also covers these 2 topics.

1. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-lose...

2. http://www.dailydot.com/society/hackers-time-person-year-kju...

[wkdown]

I would hope the readership of TIME is still infinitely more interested in what Snowden does than what Miley Cyrus does.

[yread]

I don't understand how this works. Snowden shows 37k votes and Cyrus 21k votes?!

[bsimpson]

They're mostly downvotes.