Thursday, October 15, 2009

LinkedIn Surpasses 50 Million Users



As we reported yesterday, growth for some of the world’s biggest social networks — like Twitter and Facebook — appear to be flattening. One site bucking that trend though is LinkedIn, which saw a 5.68% growth in traffic for the month of September, according to Compete.

It’s not just traffic that’s growing, users are increasing too. In a blog entry today, LinkedIn() reports that it now has over 50 million users worldwide.


As the company’s announcement points out, it took nearly sixteen months for LinkedIn to reach its first million users. The last million took only 12 days.

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