Conan Faces Steep LinkedIn Battle
It’s been a few days now since Conan O’Brien set up a LinkedIn profile and declared his intention to topple Sir Richard Branson‘s status as the site’s most followed Influencer. So how is Coco doing?
Well, it depends how you look at it. On the one hand, O’Brien at press time is sitting at 4,511 LinkedIn followers while the billionaire British entrepreneur has 2,639,363.* On the other, Jay Leno is nowhere to be found on LinkedIn and Tonight Show successor Jimmy Fallon has a bizarre and perhaps not even official LinkedIn presence, with the Influencer faucet yet to be turned on.
It’s good fodder for people like CBNC social media producer Eli Langer, who today has one of the latest media overviews:
“In addition to making us laugh, we admire Conan’s career transformation,” LinkedIn spokeswoman Blair Decembrele told CNBC.com
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