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 October 2026, ranking #22,661 (top 5%) among 493,668 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 15,695 posts on the platform and has attracted 1,831,224 followers as of October 2026. The account has been mentioned by 3,557 accounts, with 17,797 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow LinkedIn include 194 founders, 50 angel investors, 59 influencers and 43 VCs, among them Cameron Winklevoss, Andrew Chen, Antonio Garca Martnez agm.eth, Reid Hoffman, Vinny Lingham and TechCrunch.