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The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+

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Neville Hobson

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The Financial Times’ post on Google+ yesterday was understated yet powerful:

Today the Financial Times has reached 1m Google+ followers…

Just three months ago, a survey reported that of all British national newspapers with a presence on Google’s social network, the FT was the leader in terms of numbers of followers – meaning, people who have added the FT to a Circle in their own Google+ account – with more than 372,000.

Yesterday’s news shows a huge leap to one million in such a short period. As I write this post today, the FT’s Google+ profile shows the paper now has 1,004,275 followers, a jump of over 4,000 since yesterday.

What’s driving the connections? A compelling presence? Great content? Engaging people who run the G+ account? Adding them simply because it’s a media property? All of the above? Something else?

Even though the FT’s own description in its profile says only “Updates and announcements from the FT,” I’d like to think it’s a lot to do with the content that they choose to share via Google+. That suggests to me that the people behind the account have a good and very clear sense of what works on the social web.

And that fits well with what you see going on with the FT as it embraces a serious approach to being a digital mainstream medium.

It also gives a clear signal to doubters that Google+ is a place on the social web that can be worth investing time and effort to develop a strategic presence that people want to connect with and share.

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32 responses to “The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+”

  1. The +Financial Times shows that G+ can be worth your investing time and effort. | NevilleHobson.eu

    […] The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+ The Financial Times’ post on Google+ yesterday was understated yet powerful: Today the Financial Times has reached 1m Google+ followers… Just three months ago, a survey reported that of all British na… […]

  2. Adam avatar
    Adam

    The fact that the FT keeps popping up in G+’s equivalent of the recommended user list probably has some role in that number… :-)

    1. Neville Hobson avatar
      Neville Hobson

      Heh, sounds very likely! I noticed also that Time magazine reported that it, too, has acquired a million followers. I expect they’re in that G+ list as well.

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