LinkedIn Reaches 6 Million...let's look at the numbers.

Ok, maybe I'm being a bit of a geek here...

Back in March I posted about an interview by Konstantin Guericke where he said that LinkedIn "are adding one million new members every three months"

Back then they had 5.5 Million users, now yesterday, Konstantin announces their 6 millionth member. So, between 29th March and 30th May (2 months) they've added 500,000?

I suspect that they only update the official tally in half-million chunks - oooooh, how Ecademy would love to do that ;-)

Back in July 2005, Konstantin was commenting on this post (OpenBC bigger than LinkedIn?) that they "add 500k new users every two months" and, at that time, in this interview we have the number of members listed at 3.2 million.

In this post in Jan 2006, we have a figure of around 4 million, which was taken off the LinkedIn front page.

So, from July 2005 to Jan 2006 LinkedIn went from around 3 million to 4 million in 6 months. Then, from Jan 2006 to June 2006 (the next 6 months) it has added another 2 million, which is pretty much in line with Konstantin's comment "one million new members every three months".

As you can see, it's certainly accelerating and I think they've hit a tipping point.

I've heard that LinkedIn expect 10 million by the end of the year. They'll have to double their current rate of growth to do that...but, hey, look at MySpace.

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