July 12th, 2010
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Linked-In is technically a social network, but not what people really think of when most people think of social media networks… at least not me. I believe that most people think of a play to goof off online while reconnecting with friends. And while Linked-In will allow you to connect with old and current business colleagues, it’s not so mcuh used for gaming or being truly social as much as it is for networking. So even thought you can communicate back and forth using this great online tool, which I use myself, I’d call this more online business networking than I would call in online social networking.
So, without further wait, here are the 10 interesting facts about Linked-In:
- Having been created on May 5 2003, Linked-in is older than Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.
- There are more than 70 million users worldwide.
- Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent.
- LinkedIn is available in six native languages – English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
- 80% of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool.
- A new member joins LinkedIn every second.
- LinkedIn receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day.
- Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn.
- Recruiters account for 1-in-20 LinkedIn profiles.
And I thought this one very interesting:
10. Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Epstein, was headhunted for the position via his LinkedIn profile.
Statistics from LinkedIn press centre and SysComm International.
Tags: employment, interesting, linkedin, social networking