From a Blog Post by Jeff Weiner:

As of early this morning [Wednesday], 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%.

Source: The LinkedIn Blog

In Other News…

Social Networks War Shows Facebook Dominant

Facebook is leaping ahead of MySpace to turn into the most popular social networking site in the U.S. Yet although Facebook nailed down 58.6 percent of all U.S visits to social networking sites in September — for an increase of 194 percent — use of Twitter surged even more astoundingly, according to Experian Hitwise.

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Other networking sites, including Twitter, still lag way behind the two lead runners. But Twitter, a site that got only 0.15 percent of all U.S. visits in September of last year, ended in fourth place overall last month with a 1.8 percent share of U.S. visits and a stellar growth rate of 1170 percent.

Source: PC World (via SF Chronicle)

See Also: Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Past Year (via Experian Hitwise)

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