Social Media Smackdown: WSJ vs. LinkedIn

By Social Editors • on August 1, 2009

Social Media Smackdown: WSJ vs. LinkedIn

Examiner’s Cheryl Phillips — It’s not likely to be a smackdown that is worth watching. However, The Wall Street Journal’s alleged attempt to compete with LinkedIn as a professional social network is a little bit like asking me to become a contestant on The American Gladiators.

LinkedIn has more than 15 million visitors each month. WSJ’s current online community gets barely one third of that and there isn’t really a heck of a lot going on the site. The word is that WSJ will close that site when they create their monster social network that is going to make LinkedIn shake it its social boots. Not likely…

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