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The 2012 TIME 100 Poll - Anonymous on the top now

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Time is conducting a poll to find the most influential people in the world. Today Morning (IST) It was Narendra Modi (Chief Minister of Gujarat, India) was on the top and Erik Martin, Asghar Farhadi, Imran Khan, Jeremy Lin on the following positions respectively.  Then the Anonymous, the hackers group began to rise and now they are on the top.

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Anonymous isn't a person. It's not even a group of people in any well-defined sense. But if you tick off the thin-skinned, ad hoc network of hackers who collaborate under the Anonymous moniker, get ready for trouble. Members have reportedly attacked sites ranging from the Vatican's to those of major companies such as PayPal and Sony; they apparently released 75,000 credit-card numbers belonging to customers of research firm Stratfor.

Here is the poll results

Official voting ends on Friday, April 6

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes you think are the most influential people in the world. Official voting ends on Friday, April 6, and the poll winner will be included in the TIME 100 issue. The complete TIME 100 list will be chosen by our editors and revealed on TIME.com on Tuesday, April 17.