The answer is in its business model and algorithm.
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn’t necessarily due to LinkedIn’s sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard Nixons and the Spiro Agnews of social media imploded around them. As with Gerald Ford, with LinkedIn we know that we’re getting something a bit clumsy and boring, but (as with post-Watergate America!), we’re also getting something that isn’t totally crooked — and that’s actually a bit of a relief.
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Ben and David cover the 3-day-old acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. They cover LinkedIn's founding story by Reid Hoffman, break down their core businesses, analyze recent stock behavior, and speculate on the future of the company inside Microsoft. The big question - were they worth the price tag?
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LinkedIn has over 675 Million Members. Want to know what LinkedIn User Number you are? They don't make it easy, but you can do it - here's how: Go to to your profile page, then choose "view… | Chris Fralic | 34 comments
LinkedIn has over 675 Million Members. Want to know what LinkedIn User Number you are? They don't make it easy, but you can do it - here's how: Go to to your profile page, then choose "view source" from your browser, then search for "member:" and you'll see a number appear - that's it. | 34 comments on LinkedIn
