On Friday, April 18, LinkedIn announced that the social network had reached a new milestone. LinkedIn has passed the 300 million user mark. Reason for a party and a look back at the past five years. In this edition of the Infographic Day series, an overview of important facts and figures.
“ We are excited to announce that we reached a big milestone today ”. This is how Deep Nishar’s blog post on LinkedIn’s weblog begins. More than 300 million users in over 200 countries. Certainly a reason to be happy. Of the 300 australia mobile phone number list million users, more than half are located outside the United States. Compared to 2009, the male-female ratio on LinkedIn is almost even. Five years ago, the majority of users were male, at 61 percent. Now, that is only 56 percent.
In addition, LinkedIn is seeing an increase in mobile traffic. It is expected that more than half of the visits this year will be via a smartphone or tablet. With daily figures such as 15 million profile visits and more than 1 million vacancies that are viewed, mobile is certainly something that you should not let go unnoticed. Nishar indicates in the article that LinkedIn will focus more on mobile applications in the near future, now that the figures regarding mobile use are increasing.
Follow the entire series Infographic Day . Are you a fan of infographics? Then also follow the Pinterest account of Frankwatching . Here we collect the best infographics, screencasts and visuals about online and social.
Photo intro courtesy of Fotolia.