This week, Liz Heron revealed WSJ’s five steps to social media success in an interview with Abigail Edge on Journalism.co.uk.
In just two years since emerging media editor Liz Heron joined, WSJ saw an increase of 235% followers on Twitter and 375% followers on Facebook.
It all seemed like pretty sound advice and I thought it was worth sharing here.
Rather than just repeat her advice verbatim though, I’m going to use some of her quotes as jumping of points to show actual examples of the WSJ social media strategy.
The venerable financial news institution achieved over 4m Twitter followers last weekend and its Facebook page is edging closer to achieving 2m Likes.
For what could be considered a niche publication, this is an incredible achievement. How about the competition though? These numbers may not mean much without comparison…
In the UK there’s the Financial Times, which has 1.75m Twitter followers and 1.2m Likes for its Facebook page.
Back in New York there’s Bloomberg News offering a similar finance based news service. It has 1.3m Twitter followers and just 444,000 Likes on Facebook.
Clearly The Wall Street Journal is doing something right.