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Send a connection request to anyone on LinkedIn

39 points by mqzaidi 14y ago

petercooper 14y ago
I didn't know LinkedIn limited connections to anyone before. Is this something based on newer accounts or accounts without a certain number of connects? I've always been able to 'connect' to anyone even outside of my network.
- Haimpekel 14y ago
  You still need to specify "how do you know that person", if you don't know him they still block your request.
  - corin_ 14y ago
    The number of people I've never heard of who manage to send me an invite to connect... It's not exactly hard to answer "do you know this person" untruthfully.
    - MichaelApproved 14y ago
      Flag that account and their spam protection should kick in if enough other people are getting the same kind of unsolicited and unknown connection requests.
davidjgraph 14y ago
If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not. Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.
zefi 14y ago
You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name. Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.
dmix 14y ago
The link doesn't work any longer. I'm guessing linkedin fixed the problem?
- mqzaidi 14y ago
  No, this is still working for me.
lessnonymous 14y ago
You can 'connect' with anyone at all on LinkedIn. I don't see what the news is here, or why you need a hack. I just did a company search for Register.com, opened their page, click to see employees and every single one of them has a 'Connect' button. What's the hack?

39 points by mqzaidi 14y ago

I didn't know LinkedIn limited connections to anyone before. Is this something based on newer accounts or accounts without a certain number of connects? I've always been able to 'connect' to anyone even outside of my network.

Haimpekel 14y ago
You still need to specify "how do you know that person", if you don't know him they still block your request.
- corin_ 14y ago
  The number of people I've never heard of who manage to send me an invite to connect... It's not exactly hard to answer "do you know this person" untruthfully.
  - MichaelApproved 14y ago
    Flag that account and their spam protection should kick in if enough other people are getting the same kind of unsolicited and unknown connection requests.

davidjgraph 14y ago

If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not. Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.

zefi 14y ago

You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name. Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.

dmix 14y ago

The link doesn't work any longer. I'm guessing linkedin fixed the problem?

mqzaidi 14y ago
No, this is still working for me.

lessnonymous 14y ago

You can 'connect' with anyone at all on LinkedIn. I don't see what the news is here, or why you need a hack. I just did a company search for Register.com, opened their page, click to see employees and every single one of them has a 'Connect' button. What's the hack?