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The Social Network, LinkedIn may already display “predictable imbalance”

May 8, 2003

Clay Shirky, in a post on Many-to-Many noted that with only around 200 members there are already signs of Vilfredo Pareto’s “predictable imbalance” in LinkedIn, a new Social Networking service.  As at 10 pm EST, May 6th 2006, the network shows 200+ members.  The most connected user has 83 connections, but the average user has only 3 (and therefore, the median user would have either 2 or 1.)

It will be interesting to track LinkedIn’s growth.

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