LinkedIn’s hard limits (not rate limits)
Every social platform has both hard limits (you can do [activity] a maximum of [number] of times) and rate limits (you can do [activity] a bunch, just not all at once, slow down, buddy).
Casual Spreadsheets is usually more focused on a social platform’s mysterious algorithms (and rate limits), not their boring old “hard limits.” This focus is partly because algorithms and rate limits are less documented secret black boxes, so it’s more useful and fun to talk about them. Feels kinda like gossip. Hard limits can be easier to track down in official documentation, so researching them for you all feels less helpful.
But sometimes even hard limits aren’t public. Or they are, but they’re not organized in an easy-to-read way. So here we are.
Some LinkedIn HARD LIMITS, neatly written. Let’s go!
Maximum 1st-degree connections: 30,000 (source: LinkedIn, June 2016)
Maximum number of groups you can be a member of: 100: (source: LinkedIn, June 2017)
Maximum number of groups you can be have pending memberships in: 10 (getting into rate limit territory, people) (source: LinkedIn, June 2017)
Maximum number of (@) mentions you can put in a group conversations: 20 (source: LinkedIn, June 2017)
Maximum number of groups you can manage: 30 (source: LinkedIn, June 2017)
Maximum number of members a group can have: 20,000 (source: LinkedIn, June 2017)
Maximum number people you can follow: 5000 (Not connections (those are mutual) just follow (one-way connections). Also, this is unconfirmed from an unofficial blog post from 2014))
Dunzo.
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