LinkedIn's traffic is up 18%, while X down 10%

This article doesn't address the fact that LinkedIn is manipulating search engine results with Pulse, which Google is now rewarding.

LinkedIn went from 261M search traffic in Dec 2022 to 741M today.

Can you describe how?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/topics/home/

Every single topic (millions of them) is pre-generated with AI, and then you can join any one topic and "write your opinion". Most topics have no replies, or they have a single answer by an external spam agency.

LinkedIn also gives you the tools to write with AI,

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1517763

Thank you. Looks like Quora. Your input will be used for training their LLM for FREE. Users are only given Karma. :)

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Appears that they are super focused on it.

Is it the job market forcing people to network or Linkedin is a viable alternative to X?