# Can you have two LinkedIn accounts?

> Can you have two LinkedIn accounts? No: the User Agreement allows one account, in your real name. A business gets a Page; a duplicate gets merged.

Source: https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/can-you-have-two-linkedin-accounts

## Can you have two LinkedIn accounts?

No: LinkedIn's User Agreement says you will only have one LinkedIn account, and it must be in your real name. A company, brand or side project gets a LinkedIn Page run from that one account, and an accidental second account gets merged or closed.

![1: One account, in your real name, beside a screenshot: the Mosaic profiles table: names, coloured tags, proxy locations and a Start button on each row](https://mosaicbrowser.com/covers/can-you-have-two-linkedin-accounts.webp)

You can't have two LinkedIn accounts. Section 2.1 of LinkedIn's User Agreement lists three promises every member makes, and the second is that "you will only have one LinkedIn account, which must be in your real name" ([User Agreement](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement), effective 3 November 2025, read 2 November 2026). The same sentence turns up in LinkedIn's own help pages, including the Sales Navigator one, which reminds new users that the User Agreement "only allows members to have one LinkedIn account".

Mosaic keeps accounts you are entitled to run apart; it does not change what a platform allows. On LinkedIn that is one member account per person, so this page is about what LinkedIn gives you in place of a second one.

## What LinkedIn's terms say, line by line

The rule is spread over three parts of the User Agreement, and each one closes a different door.

- Section 2.1, Service eligibility: one account, in your real name, and "creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others".
- Section 2.2, Your account: you will not share your account with anyone else, and you will not "share or transfer your account or any part of it".
- Section 8.2, Don'ts: no false identity, no "Member profile for anyone other than yourself", and no using another person's account "such as sharing log-in credentials or copying cookies".

The Professional Community Policies repeat it in plainer words: "We don't allow fake profiles or entities", and "do not share your LinkedIn account with anyone else" ([Professional Community Policies](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/professional-community-policies), read 2 November 2026). A pen-name account, a second account for job hunting and an account for your company all fall under one of those lines.

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## What to use instead of a second account

People who search for this usually want one of five things. LinkedIn has an answer for each, and none of them needs a second login.

| What you want | What LinkedIn offers |
| --- | --- |
| A presence for a company, brand or school | A LinkedIn Page, created from your account |
| A separate line of business or product | A Showcase Page, one of the Page types ([Create a LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a543852)) |
| To run a client's Page | A Page admin role on your own account |
| A sales or recruiting seat paid by work | Sales Navigator or Recruiter, linked to your one account |
| To fix an account you made by mistake | Merge or close the duplicate |

### A Page for anything that is not a person

LinkedIn's help draws the line in one sentence: "LinkedIn Pages represent collective organizations, while LinkedIn profiles represent individuals" ([Differences between a LinkedIn profile and a LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a6204405), read 2 November 2026). You need a profile to create a Page, and a profile can't be converted into one. The same page warns that if you represent your organisation with a profile instead of a Page, "LinkedIn may automatically log you out of your account", and repeat violations can get it restricted. Its advice for anyone who already did this is to change the profile's name back to their own and create a Page.

### Admin roles instead of shared logins

A Page has no password of its own. "There are no separate login credentials or passwords for pages," LinkedIn's help says, and admin roles are given to personal profiles ([Understand admin access for LinkedIn Pages](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a8024204), read 2 November 2026). The same page says sharing login credentials "violates our Professional Community Policies and can lead to account or content restrictions". So a colleague, a freelancer or an agency gets a role on the Page, signed in as themselves.

Agencies get the same answer for client work. Role by role, how a social media manager gets into each platform without a client's password, LinkedIn Page admin included, is in [how to access client social media accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/access-client-social-media-accounts-as-a-social-media).

### A work seat on your own account

Employers buy Sales Navigator and Recruiter seats, and that is often where the idea of a "work LinkedIn" comes from. The User Agreement settles it in section 2.2: your account belongs to you, and when another party buys a service for you, they "have the right to control access to and get reports on your use of such paid Service; however, they do not have rights to your personal account". You activate the seat on the account you already have.

## If you already have two LinkedIn accounts

LinkedIn's fix is to merge or close ([Merge or close duplicate accounts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1337200), read 2 November 2026). If the duplicate has 0 connections, sign in to it and close it from **Settings & Privacy**, under **Account management**. Wait 48 hours, then add its email address to the account you keep, so the same address can't start another duplicate.

If both have connections, you contact LinkedIn with the sign-in details and profile URLs of both. A merge moves only the connections and the email address. Profile content, endorsements, recommendations and group memberships stay behind, and accounts with zero or more than 30,000 connections can't be merged. Download the archive of the one you are closing first.

## Where a separate browser fits

We make Mosaic, a browser that gives each account its own profile, with its own cookies, fingerprint and proxy. It does not make a second LinkedIn account allowed, and we would not help set one up. Nor is it a way to use someone else's LinkedIn session: our profiles can import a cookie jar, and a client's LinkedIn cookies pasted into one is the "copying cookies" that section 8.2 names.

What it does do around LinkedIn is keep your one account in one place. A recruiter or consultant can keep their own LinkedIn in one profile and each client's other logins (the careers site, the ATS, the email tool) in profiles of their own, so nothing opens under the wrong client. Which platforms let you switch accounts in their own app, and which need a browser per login, is in [how to manage multiple social media accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-social-media-accounts). How sites connect two accounts to one person anyway, from cookies to IP addresses, is in [how websites detect multiple accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/how-do-websites-detect-multiple-accounts).

![The Mosaic profiles table: names, coloured tags, proxy locations and a Start button on each row](https://mosaicbrowser.com/shots/profiles-list.png)
*One profile per login, each with its own cookies*

![The Mosaic companion inside a profile's browser: a note, two saved logins and a live two-factor code](https://mosaicbrowser.com/shots/companion.png)
*The client's logins and codes, inside that client's profile*

The working set-up for client logins, with each client's two-factor codes beside them, is in [Mosaic for social media managers](https://mosaicbrowser.com/use-cases/social-media-managers).

## Sources

1. [LinkedIn User Agreement (effective 3 November 2025)](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement), read November 2, 2026
2. [LinkedIn Professional Community Policies](https://www.linkedin.com/legal/professional-community-policies), read November 2, 2026
3. [LinkedIn Help: Differences between a LinkedIn profile and a LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a6204405), read November 2, 2026
4. [LinkedIn Help: Create a LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a543852), read November 2, 2026
5. [LinkedIn Help: Merge or close duplicate accounts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1337200), read November 2, 2026
6. [LinkedIn Help: Understand admin access for LinkedIn Pages](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a8024204), read November 2, 2026
7. [Sales Navigator Help: Considerations for connecting your Sales Navigator account with your LinkedIn account](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a10221077), read November 2, 2026

## Questions

### Can I have a personal LinkedIn and a business LinkedIn account?

Not as two member accounts. A business gets a LinkedIn Page, which you create from your own account and manage as its admin. LinkedIn says a profile can't be converted into a Page, and a profile used to represent an organisation may be logged out.

### Is it illegal to have two LinkedIn accounts?

It is not a crime. It breaks LinkedIn's User Agreement, which you accept when you sign up, and LinkedIn can restrict accounts that break it.

### What if I made a second LinkedIn account by accident?

LinkedIn's help page on duplicate accounts covers it. You either close the duplicate yourself, which works when it has no connections, or contact LinkedIn to merge the two, which moves the connections and the email address only.

### Can my employer give me a separate LinkedIn account for work?

No. The User Agreement says your account belongs to you, even when your employer pays for a Sales Navigator or Recruiter seat. The employer controls the paid seat and its reports, not a second profile.

### Can two people share one LinkedIn account?

No. Section 2.2 of the User Agreement says you will not share your account with anyone else, and section 8.2 lists sharing log-in credentials and copying cookies as ways of using another person's account.

## Related

[How to manage multiple social media accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-social-media-accounts): Check each platform's account rule, switch inside the app where it lets you, publish from one scheduler, and give every login its own browser profile.

[How to access client social media accounts as a social media manager](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/access-client-social-media-accounts-as-a-social-media): Ask each client for a role, not a password: partner access on Meta, Business Center on TikTok, permissions on YouTube, Page admin on LinkedIn.

[Can you have two Facebook accounts?](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/can-you-have-two-facebook-accounts): No, you can't have two personal Facebook accounts: Meta's terms allow one per person. A business gets a Page, and new additional profiles can't be created.

[How do websites detect multiple accounts?](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/how-do-websites-detect-multiple-accounts): Websites detect multiple accounts by what two accounts share: cookies, the IP address, the browser fingerprint, payment and phone details, and habits.

[Anti-detect browser for social media managers](https://mosaicbrowser.com/use-cases/social-media-managers): Social media managers need an anti-detect browser only for brand logins with no platform role: one profile per brand, with its own exit and 2FA codes.

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