LinkedIn: 50 Million Professionals Worldwide

I love LinkedIn. Yes, it's not as interactive as Facebook or Twitter. But you can network, join groups. find power partners, post and share events, etc. Plus it really is the premier business social network. Do you have a completed profile? If you do, you are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities. So congratulations, Jeff Weiner and thanks for all your company does. This is from the official LinkedIn blog.

LinkedIn: 50 million professionals worldwide

Jeff Weiner October 14th, 2009

As of early this morning, LinkedIn has 50 million users worldwide and we’re growing that figure at roughly one new member per second.  When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days — almost a year and four months — to reach our first million members. This last million took only 12 days.

Where are these 50 million users? LinkedIn has been global since inception — about half of our total membership is international.  There are now 11 million users in Europe alone. India is currently our fastest-growing country with almost 3 million users, while the Netherlands has the highest rate of adoption per capita outside the U.S., at 30%.

While 50 million is an important milestone, we’re even more excited about how our members are using the site.  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.

We’re proud to have reached this latest milestone, and we very much appreciate our members’ use of LinkedIn.  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.

via blog.linkedin.com