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Now that LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0is a part of Microsoft<\/a> (after closing<\/a> its $26.2 billion acquisition<\/a> in December), the social networking site for the working world no longer reports\u00a0earnings<\/a>, and the metrics that come with them, as an individual business. So\u00a0to underscore its growth, today LinkedIn used a blog post<\/a> to announce\u00a0that it has now passed 500 million registered users in 200 countries on its platform, a new milestone for the company \u2014\u00a0up from 467 million members<\/a> as of its last quarterly report in October of last year.<\/p>\n And in its ongoing\u00a0effort to\u00a0increase engagement and time spent on the site, as well as to expand the links between users, LinkedIn is\u00a0rolling out one more update. From later this week, you will start to see a new dashboard and information about people in your network in the \u201cMy Network\u201d tab \u2014 where you also go to add new connections and accept invites from others. To get people to visit that tab a little more often, LinkedIn is now going to feed\u00a0you stats about people you know on the site. A spokesperson said\u00a0that this will include lists of\u00a0who is the most\u00a0connected in your network, who has the most mutual connections and interactions with you, who was your first connection, and so on.<\/p>\n The dashboard is\u00a0not quite what LinkedIn\u00a0used to offer with InMaps (which it quietly retired in 2014<\/a>) but it\u2019s a small move in that direction, and I can imagine LinkedIn expanding this over time if they see it gets some traction. From what I can see, MyNetwork is one of the areas where LinkedIn runs ads, so getting more traffic to it would benefit it in other ways as well.<\/p>\n Revealing more details about your profile, and in more places, is in line with how LinkedIn has been revamping the site overall. Earlier this month, the company started sending out updated terms of service<\/a> (coming into effect in June) that will see LinkedIn sharing your profile information with more third parties and in more places, although you can opt out of these. Other updates of the past several months have included a completely new (and, sorry LinkedIn, much slower) desktop site<\/a>; a new, curated\u00a0newsfeed with trending business news stories; and expansions of\u00a0some of its paid services such as its Sales Navigator<\/a> for sales teams.<\/p>\n For some context, today\u2019s 500 million mark and jumping\u00a033 million users in six months is in line \u2014 not faster, not slower \u2014\u00a0compared to LinkedIn\u2019s previous growth. In April 2016<\/a>, the company reported 433 million members, equating to 34\u00a0million users\u00a0added in a similar six-month period.<\/p>\n Today, the company also broke out some further stats about who is using the site, and also about what is on it \u2014 LinkedIn\u2019s own work-oriented answer to Facebook\u2019s attempt to cover all social bases for its users.\u00a0There are now over 10 million jobs listed, more than 9 million companies, and over 100,000 business articles published each week.<\/p>\n I was also pretty surprised to see some of the geographical data on where the site is used today. UAE apparently is the most connected country, and London is the most connected city \u2014 both outside of LinkedIn\u2019s home market of the US, which doesn\u2019t make the top five countries. (San Francisco, however, ranks as the third-largest city when it comes to \u201cmost connected\u201d.)<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, HR and staffing\/recruiting are respectively the most connected job function and industry on LinkedIn. At the end of the day, recruitment is still the mainstay of the platform.<\/p>\n Featured Image: Nan Palmero<\/a>\/Flickr<\/a> UNDER A CC BY 2.0<\/a> LICENSE<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/linkedin-chocs.jpg?w=680\")
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