LinkedIn is a professional networking and careers platform co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, and Konstantin Guericke, and is now the world's largest professional network with over 1 billion members. LinkedIn's Twitter Score is 42 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #21,925 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
LinkedIn was conceived in Reid Hoffman's living room in 2002 and officially launched in May 2003. A 2008 funding round raised $53 million at a $1 billion valuation, with former backers including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Tiger Global Management. Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn in December 2016 for $26.2 billion, per widely reported coverage at the time.
LinkedIn has published 20,340 posts on the platform and has attracted 1,831,006 followers as of August 2026. The account has been mentioned by 3,495 accounts, with 17,653 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow LinkedIn include 190 founders, 50 angel investors, 59 influencers and 44 VCs, among them Cameron Winklevoss, Andrew Chen, Reid Hoffman, Antonio Garca Martnez agm.eth, Vinny Lingham and TechCrunch.