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LinkedIn celebrates its growth, reaching 100 million members
Wednesday, 23 March 2011 22:35

 

There is no doubt that Facebook is dominant nowadays as far as the social networking service is concerned, but LinkedIn is also growing fast. The number of its members reached 100 million.
LinkedIn is not usual social networking service because it does not encourage its users to play games, it does not induce acquiring lots of “friends”. The resource united professionals and specialists in different branches and they are able to make important connections here. In spite of the fact that Facebook plays the main role as a social networking, Linkedin is developing fast too. There are over 100 million registered members at the website at present and 50% of them are not from the USA.
The CEO of the network Jeff Weiner said that this event became an important point for the company. The website contributes to the union of the talent and the possibility changeing people’s lives. 100 million users make a network and each one of them has some unique story. So often careers are made here. The networking helps not only to find a job, but people start new businesses thanks to new connections found on LinkedIn.
According to the estimates the LInkedIn is employed in 200+ countries, and half LinkedIn’s users are not Americans. The company says as well that executives from all Fortune 500 companies are also registered at LinkedIn. The rapid development of the service was noticed in Brazil and Mexico. For instance, last year 428 % rise of Brazil membership was stated. The resource claims that over 1.3 billion connections were made between its users.
In spite of the milestone it has reached, the site still encounters some problems and one of them is stickness. The matter is that the majority of users come to the website seldom – less than once a month. So there is much work that should be done in this direction to improve the situation.

There is no dLinkedIn celebrates its growth, reaching 100 million membersoubt that Facebook is dominant nowadays as far as the social networking service is concerned, but LinkedIn is also growing fast.

The number of its members reached 100 million.LinkedIn is not usual social networking service because it does not encourage its users to play games, it does not induce acquiring lots of “friends”. The resource united professionals and specialists in different branches and they are able to make important connections here. In spite of the fact that Facebook plays the main role as a social networking, Linkedin is developing fast too.

There are over 100 million registered members at the website at present and 50% of them are not from the USA.The CEO of the network Jeff Weiner said that this event became an important point for the company. The website contributes to the union of the talent and the possibility changeing people’s lives. 100 million users make a network and each one of them has some unique story. So often careers are made here.

 

The networking helps not only to find a job, but people start new businesses thanks to new connections found on LinkedIn. According to the estimates the LInkedIn is employed in 200+ countries, and half LinkedIn’s users are not Americans. The company says as well that executives from all Fortune 500 companies are also registered at LinkedIn. The rapid development of the service was noticed in Brazil and Mexico. For instance, last year 428 % rise of Brazil membership was stated. The resource claims that over 1.3 billion connections were made between its users.In spite of the milestone it has reached, the site still encounters some problems and one of them is stickness. The matter is that the majority of users come to the website seldom – less than once a month. So there is much work that should be done in this direction to improve the situation.