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LinkedInfluencer en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of LinkedIn + influencer.

Meanings

1. (informal) An influencer on the social media site LinkedIn.
   • There have never been more people trying to become LinkedInfluencers, and there have never been so many resources they can pay for to do it. 2022 October 26, Rebecca Jennings, “Everybody wants to be a LinkedInfluencer”, in Vox, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2023:
   • n 2022, because no social network is safe, LinkedIn is an ecosystem in which a new type of influencer—a LinkedInfluencer, if you will—can thrive. 2022 March 3, Jessica Goodman, “LinkedInfluencers Are Making LinkedIn Posts an Actual Thing *and* Creating IRL Change”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
   • LinkedIn has tried to modernize, too—slapping special badges on LinkedInfluencers (kind of like the old Twitter verification system) and giving users new tools for article-writing. 2023 November 10, Scott Nover, “LinkedIn Really Is the Best Social Network”, in Slate, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023:

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