LinkedIn

In a normal year at this time, a typical LinkedIn feed might be full of posts about year-end reflections on leadership and professional goals and suggested ...

And after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last year, the platform has been criticized for morphing into a possible [haven for its most incendiary users](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/business/nightcap-twitter-neo-nazi/index.html). [courting influencers](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/tech/linkedin-influencers/index.html) who regularly post content to the site, potentially giving users more reasons to visit. One group of Twitter employees created a spreadsheet of laid-off workers from the company alongside recruiters hiring for other firms, and used LinkedIn to help facilitate sign-ups. And the platform has been growing its “learning” section, which provides video courses taught by various industry experts and which the company says experienced a 17% increase in hours spent as of November compared to the year prior. that would have the greatest growth opportunity from that would be a platform that’s focused on careers like LinkedIn. He said LinkedIn seemed like the obvious place to promote the service. [white-collar recession](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/economy/recession-white-collar-workers/index.html). The number of posts on LinkedIn mentioning “open to work” were up 22% during November compared to the same period in the prior year, according to data provided by the company. The uptick in use appears to have been good for LinkedIn’s business. Facebook and Instagram have been criticized by users for racing to “You had to do social distancing and we were quarantining and people were working remotely so there was a shift in real-life networking possibilities.” One LinkedIn group of employees affected by the November layoffs at Facebook-parent Meta, for example, now has more than 200 members.