Professional networking site, LinkedIn, has claimed to have reached 200 million members across 200 countries and territories, up from 187 million members stated during its Q3 earnings results in November 2012 and 100 million members in March 2011. The company claims to witness two new registrations every second, with 64% of its user base from outside United States. Note that LinkedIn hasn't disclosed how many of these 200 million members are active users. Unique Visitors: Citing comScore metrics, LinkedIn stated that it has registered 160 million unique monthly visitors as of November 2012, up from 143 million unique visitors in September 2012 and is currently the 23rd most visited web property globally. Note that this stat includes unique visitors from SlideShare, which was acquired by the company last year. Top Five Regions: In a blog post on LinkedIn's official blog, Deep Nishar, SVP (Products & New Experiences), LinkedIn, stated that United States continues to have the highest LinkedIn members with 74 million members, followed by India which has 18 million members. Others in in the list include Brazil and United Kingdom which has 11 million members apiece and Canada which has 7 million members. While Nishar didn't disclose the number of active users in these regions, LinkedIn had informed in April 2012, that it had 7 million active users in India, out of 14 million registered users at that time. Fastest Growing Regions: LinkedIn stated that Turkey is the fastest growing country for the company, followed by Colombia and Indonesia. On the…
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