Love them or hate them, the Kardashians are a force to be reckoned with --especially when it comes to the Internet and social media. Time magazine knows this and once again included Kim Kardashian on its annual list of the most influential people on the Internet.
Kardashian's inclusion is a no-brainer, since the reality star has amassed more than 130 million followers across Instagram, Twitter and Facebook -- and that's not including the millions more who followed her when she joined Snapchat last week. There's also something to be said for a woman who can launch 1,000 think-pieces with the push of a share button. What's more, Kardashian is an entrepreneur. Her mobile video game raked in millions and launched two successful paid apps with in the last year, including her Kimoji app, which "broke" the Apple's App Store due to the number of people who rushed to buy it.
But Kim isn't one in the Kardashian empire with internet prowess, as husband Kanye West and her step-parent Caitlyn Jenner also made this year's list (Sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner made Time's list of the 30 Most Influential Teens two years running.) Before publicly transitioning, Jenner had no social media presence. These days, Caitlyn is a social media queen. Though the 66-year-old only has 3.8 million followers on Twitter, she broke records when she joined Twitter on the same day she introduced herself to the world on the cover of Vanity Fair.
And then there's Kanye. Like his wife, the 39-year-old rapper makes news with the help of less than 140 characters. Twenty-million people follow him on Twitter (West follows only one), which he uses as much as a way to communicate with the public and the media as he uses it as a personal sounding board. And like his wife, he mastered the art of the celebrity feud.
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