Social network for professionals LinkedIn has seen tremendous growth in the first half of this year, achieving 40% growth rate of its users to over 70 million worldwide.
In fact, LinkedIn has growth significantly in this year; it’s not only recently hit 1 million users in Spain (Europe), but also received favorably well response in Asia, especially in India, with over 6 million users there.
On the surface, it’s easy to dismiss LinkedIn as the most promising social network for corporate people if we view its landing page as a people directory. However, to see how LinkedIn dominates usage especially the corporate professionals, there’s no other better way to view it via an infographic as below.
Some of the facts about LinkedIn may surprise you:
- Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members
- 560,000 professionals are visiting LinkedIn homepage everyday, and the number is still growing
- 50% of users are business decision makers in their company
- 70% of people using LinkedIn for job hunting whereas 80% of people use LinkedIn for recruiting
Moreover, a study conducted by NetProspex has revealed that 43% of employees of the largest companies in America use LinkedIn. In contrast, only 11% of professionals are using Facebook.
For more information, you can visit the NetProspex’s Social Report May 2010 [PDF].
Needlessly to explain, Linkedin is the most popular site among the top corporations in America.
