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50 million professionals worldwide : LinkedIn
The More Impressive part of it’s growing by “roughly one new member per second.”
LinkedIn says that when it launched in 2003, it tool 477 days to reach it’s first million members. This last million took only 12 days.
“While 50 million is an important milestone, we’re even more excited about how our members are using the site,” says LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. “Around the globe, people turn to LinkedIn to create and manage their professional identities online. They reconnect with former colleagues and develop new relationships, enabling them to create and collaborate with a network of trusted individuals. Every day professionals use LinkedIn to define themselves —and their businesses — to the world.”
LinkedIn says that about half of its total membership is international. It was launched as a global network to begin with. Europe makes up 11 million users, and India is the network’s fastest-growing country with 3 million users itself. The Netherlands has the highest rate of adoption per capita outside of the United States, at 30% according to Weiner.
“We’re proud to have reached this latest milestone, and we very much appreciate our members’ use of LinkedIn,” he says. “However, in the context of our mission – to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful – we’re just getting started.”
