Twitter Founders Finalists For Time’s 2009 Most Influential People

Twitter founders, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, have officially been casted as finalists for Time Magazine’s 2009 Most Influential People award. The micro-blog platform hit the mainstream last year when news stations were astounded by the real-time documenting of major events (the attacks on Mumbai, the Flight 1549 landing). Time is doing something a bit different this year by letting users weigh in on who the winner should be. Their audience isn’t giving Twitter too much love, with only a 33% average influence rate at the moment. Let’s help change that. The guys are up against some stiff competition including Steve Jobs, Prsident Obama, Sarah Palin(?), and more…