LinkedIn Reaches 50 Million Users

An excerpt from my contribution to the Path Interactive blog…..
“Last week, LinkedIn reached another milestone, by reaching 50 million users worldwide.  Half of those users are in the United States.  Trailing behind the U.S. is Europe with approximately 11 million users.  How quickly is LinkedIn growing?  To put it in perspective, it took the social network nearly 3 years to reach its first 5 million users, while the last million has taken a little over two weeks.”  Read full post