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FT Racks Up 1 Million Google+ Followers

That is more than the New York Times, Independent, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times combined. The news outlet with a metered subscription service online has more than double the number of followers of the New York Times and five times the number that the Guardian has acquired. It is almost a year since the launch of Google's social network, with the Financial Times creating a page in November, when organisations were granted the ability to have a Google+ presence. On 16 June the FT thanked its one million followers on Google+ as it reached the milestone, a post which at the time of writing had generated 64 comments indicating the level of engagement.

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