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![160205_inv_linkedin](https://img.money.com/2016/02/160205_inv_linkedin.jpg)

Even the people behind the world's largest professional network have bad days at work, and today might be one of them: LinkedIn stock dropped 45% in one day.

What happened? Yesterday, [the company told investors](https://press.linkedin.com/site-resources/news-releases/2016/linkedin-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2015-results) that projected first quarter revenue is $820 million. But the *[Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/02/05/linkedin-shares-plunge-40-on-pace-for-worst-one-day-loss-ever/)* [reports](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/02/05/linkedin-shares-plunge-40-on-pace-for-worst-one-day-loss-ever/) that investors had expected first quarter revenue to reach $867 million. LinkedIn further projected that it would bring in $3.6 to $3.65 billion in revenue for all of 2016, far short of Wall Street's expectation that the company would see $3.91 billion in revenue.

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The selloff is LinkedIn's largest ever one-day loss, the *WSJ* says. As of 2:41 pm, the stock is selling for $105.15 a share, down from $201.65 this morning and $276.18 in February of last year.

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