LinkedIn

Professional social network LinkedIn has just announced it already has 200 million users worldwide. Indonesia, in the list of countries with the fastest user growth.

This was disclosed in a publication on LinkedIn official blog. Unfortunately, the company from Mountain View, California, did not say how many LinkedIn users in Indonesia today.

What is clear, Indonesia ranks third in the list of countries with the fastest growth. The position occupied by one and both Turkey and Colombia.

While in service on mobile devices, the growth of LinkedIn users occurred in China, Brazil, Portugal, India, and Italy.

Most likely, the growth of LinkedIn users in the country occurred after the social networking that provide services in the Indonesian language in December 2011.

In February 2012 ago, LinkedIn had announced that users in Indonesia has reached 1 million. "Reaching one million members within two months after the launch of the site in Indonesia is an important achievement that shows that professionals in Indonesia are keen to build an online professional image on LinkedIn," said Clifford Rosenberg, Managing Director of LinkedIn Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.

In Indonesia, according to the data in February 2012, three of the fastest growing professional industry, oil and gas, energy, telecommunications, and information technology and services.

Most users per January 2013

As of January 2013, most LinkedIn users are in the United States by 74 million penggua. India ranks second with 18 million users.

Brazil and England are in third place, where they both have 11 million users of LinkedIn. The fourth position is occupied by Kanda with 7 million users.

Industry's largest professional network LinkedIn is technology and technology service of 4 million, financial services amounted to 2.03 million, 1.95 million college, computer software 1.65 million, 1.59 million and telecommunications.

LinkedIn was founded by Reid Hoffman in December 2012 and launched on May 5, 2003. Hoffman has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), but now serves as Chairman at LinkedIn. Its headquarters is based in Mountain View, California, USA.

In addition to Hoffman, LinkedIn also helped built by former PayPal employees and Socialnet.com, like Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, and Chris Saccheri.

Now, led by Jeff Weiner LinkedIn as CEO, who previously was an executive at the Internet company Yahoo!.