Above infographic was supplied by Vincenzo Consenza who also points out:
Today LinkedIn, the most popular professional social network, has reached the mark of 100 million members worldwide, according to its own advertising tool. It’s growth rate is increasing: in october 2009 user base was 50 million, in May 2010 jumped to 70 million.
56% of users are outside United States. Top countries are: U.S.A., India, U.K and Brazil. Among European countries the most active are: The Netherlands, France and Italy.
61% of members are men. Both users between 25-34 and 35-54 years old are 36%, while 18-24 years old are 21%.
The most represented industries are hi-tech (17%), finance (14%) and manufacturing (10%), while sales (12%), academics (10%), administrative (10%) are the most common job functions.
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Have you considered about putting some social bookmarking buttons to these blog posts. At least for twitter.
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Wow a really useful article on BW , Whatever next
Good infographic!
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Tks
So what are the surprises? What came out of these numbers that you were shocked by Eric?
To see further details of its achievements, check out below infographic detailing the stats of LinkedIn including number of users, how many daily visits, who owns it and some other interesting information : http://omgeureka.blogspot.com/2011/03/linkedin-interesting-statistics.html