You’ve got to love polls versus editors. The two rarely match up, but in Time’s case, the difference is astonishing. Readers were asked who their person of the year was. Julian Assange topped the list with 382,026 votes, about 150,000 ahead of second-placed Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

So, who did Time choose? Not Assange. Not Erdogan. Not third-placed Lady Gaga (146,378) nor Barack Obama (sixth, 27,478 votes), Steve Jobs (seventh, 24,810) or the rather odd ‘The Chilean Miners’ entry (eighth, 29,124). Nope, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg took the prize, despite placing tenth in the poll, amassing only 18,353 votes.

Given the fact that Facebook’s hardly been astonishing this year, and has mostly made the news for various appalling privacy issues, it’s an odd decision; and while editors shouldn’t capitulate to readers, I do wonder whether Time’s editorial team realises how far out of touch it is with the people who read the magazine.