--- title: "How to get notified when someone posts on LinkedIn (2026)" description: "Click the bell on their profile and choose All to get notified when someone posts on LinkedIn. For a list of people, Ziplined tells you who engaged." canonical: "https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-post-alerts" --- # How to get notified when someone posts on LinkedIn - **Written by**: [Jorrit van Ginkel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorritvanginkel/), founder of Ziplined - **Published**: 12 November 2026 - **Last updated**: 12 November 2026 *Image: On LinkedIn, a wireframe of the Notifications tab: Kim Hollander posted, between other notifications. An arrow to Ziplined: Kim Hollander's post about onboarding new sales reps, 4 of the 38 people who engaged are ideal clients: Grace Mensah commented on Kim's post, Lotte Vermeer liked it. Under it, sent to Slack or email. Invented people.* **To get notified when someone posts on LinkedIn, open their profile, click the bell next to their photo and choose All.** That bell is LinkedIn's own alert; Ziplined's alert for a new post is coming soon. **Short answer:** LinkedIn's bell tells you that someone posted; you need to follow or be connected with them. Ziplined tells you who engaged: it collects the posts of your competitors, dream clients or experts every night and sends the people who engage and fit your ideal client to Slack or email. ## How to get notified when a specific person posts on LinkedIn To get notified when a specific person posts on LinkedIn, click the bell next to their profile photo and choose All. LinkedIn then puts a notification in your Notifications tab each time that person posts. 1. ### Follow or connect with them. The bell only works for someone you follow or are connected with. 2. ### Open their profile. The bell sits next to their profile photo. 3. ### Click the bell and choose All. Most relevant sends only some posts. 4. ### Check your Notifications tab. Their new posts show up there, between all your other notifications. *Image: A wireframe of Kim Hollander's LinkedIn profile, with the bell next to the photo opened on three choices: All, Most relevant and Off. All is chosen. Beside it, a wireframe of LinkedIn's Notifications tab: Kim Hollander posted, between 3 people reacted to your post, a job you may be interested in, a work anniversary and your search appearances. Invented people.* **Time:** a minute per person. **Limit:** one person at a time, only for you, only inside LinkedIn. It tells you they posted, not who engaged. LinkedIn facts: [LinkedIn Help on subscribing to a member's content](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a594247), checked 12 November 2026. The person is not told you subscribed. ## How to track someone's LinkedIn posts without the bell Without the bell, you can track someone's LinkedIn posts with a bookmarked posts search or a Sales Navigator lead alert. Both still mean opening LinkedIn and reading each post yourself. ### 1. Search someone's LinkedIn posts and bookmark the search 1. ### Search for their name. Click See all results, then the Posts tab. 2. ### Open All filters. Pick them under From member, and set Sort by and Date posted. 3. ### Bookmark the page in your browser. One bookmark per person. 4. ### Open it every day. Read what is new, and open the reactions on the posts that matter. *Image: A wireframe of a LinkedIn search: the Posts tab, with the filters From member Kim Hollander, Sort by and Date posted. Under it, two of Kim Hollander's posts, the newest first. Invented posts.* **Limit:** nothing tells you when they post, so you check by hand. LinkedIn facts: [LinkedIn Help on searching member posts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a526104), checked 12 November 2026. **Or skip the search.** Add the person to Ziplined, and every night their new posts land in one list, with who engaged with them. [Start 7 days free](https://app.ziplined.io/sign-up) ### 2. Does Sales Navigator alert you when a lead posts? Yes. In Sales Navigator, the Lead shares alert tells you when a saved lead shares a post. A saved account gets an alert for up to one post a day. 1. ### Save the person as a lead. Or save their company as an account. 2. ### Read the alerts on your Sales Navigator homepage. They also come in as notifications on LinkedIn. **Limit:** Sales Navigator costs from US$119.99 a month per seat. The alert is about the post, not about who engaged with it. LinkedIn facts: [Sales Navigator Help on alerts](https://www.linkedin.com/help/sales-navigator/answer/a105133), checked 12 November 2026. Price: public monthly price of Sales Navigator Core, checked 12 November 2026. ## Which way to get LinkedIn post alerts fits you? For one person, LinkedIn's bell is enough. To follow a list of competitors and dream clients and know who engaged, each manual way means reading every post yourself. | | Tells you they posted | Who engaged | In Slack | Cost | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | | The bell | In your Notifications tab | You open each post | No | Included in LinkedIn | | A bookmarked search | When you check | You open each post | No | Included in LinkedIn | | Sales Navigator | Lead shares alert | You open each post | No | From US$119.99 a month per seat | | Ziplined | Not yet (coming soon); the post shows in Ziplined after the next nightly check | The ones who fit your ideal client | Yes, or email, hourly, daily or weekly | From $49 a month | ## What is Ziplined and how does it track someone's LinkedIn posts? Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar. It finds people who engage with your team, your competitors and your market, keeps the ones who fit your ideal client, and sends them to your tools while you sleep. 1. ### Add the people you want to follow. Paste a LinkedIn profile or company page and say who it is: your own team, a competitor or an industry expert. Keep "Include the past week" on (the default), so your first list is not empty. 2. ### Ziplined collects every night. From 02:05 UTC it reads their posts of the last 7 days, up to 20 per person. Likes come in while a post is up to 7 days old, comments while it is up to 3 days old; later comments are not collected. 3. ### You see the posts and who engaged. New posts wait in Ziplined's lists of posts. The people who engage and fit your ideal client go to Slack or email. *Image: Two alerts side by side. Who engaged, live: Grace Mensah, Head of Sales at Northwind, commented on Kim's post about onboarding new sales reps. New post alert, coming soon: Kim Hollander posted, Onboarding new sales reps, shown greyed out. Invented people.* When you add a profile, Ziplined reads its last 7 days right away, so the first names arrive within minutes. After that it checks every night from 02:05 UTC. An hourly alert matters for what arrives during the day, such as the past week of a profile you just added. Nightly data reaches you the morning after. The alert about who engaged with a post works on every plan, without the Chrome extension. For the people behind the posts, see [LinkedIn competitor analysis](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-competitor-analysis), [the engagers of industry experts' posts](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-influencer-engagers) and [how to export LinkedIn post engagers](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/export-linkedin-post-engagers). ## How to track a competitor's or dream client's LinkedIn posts in one list In Ziplined, every post of the people and company pages you track lands in a list of posts after the next nightly check. Sort it by Most ideal clients, and the posts your buyers engage with come first. There is one list each for your own team's posts, your competitors' and the industry experts'. Ziplined has only these three kinds, so add a dream client as an industry expert. Each post gets a topic of a few words, and opening it shows which ideal clients liked or commented. *Image: A list of posts in Ziplined, sorted by most ideal clients. Pricing for agencies, by Eva Lindqvist, 2 days ago: 7 of 140 engagers are ideal clients. Onboarding new sales reps, by Kim Hollander, yesterday: 4 of 38. Cold outreach templates, by Kim Hollander, 5 days ago: 2 of 210. Invented posts.* ## Can you get LinkedIn post alerts in Slack or email? LinkedIn sends no post alerts to Slack. Ziplined sends a Slack or email alert about each ideal client who likes or comments on the posts you track: the alert is about the people, not the post. Pick a Slack channel or an email address, and narrow the list to one person you track if you like. You choose hourly, daily or weekly: Slack is hourly by default, email daily, and a weekly alert goes out on Monday. *Image: Ziplined alerts in Slack about the ideal clients who engaged with tracked posts: Grace Mensah, Head of Sales at Northwind, commented on Kim's post about onboarding new sales reps. Lotte Vermeer liked Kim's post. Noor Bakker commented on Eva's post. Each with a button to the LinkedIn profile. Invented people.* On Team, from $99 a month, the same people also go to HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets or a webhook. More on the Slack side: [LinkedIn alerts to Slack](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-alerts-to-slack). ## What to do when a dream client posts on LinkedIn When a dream client posts on LinkedIn, comment early and follow up with the people who engaged. Four plays to start with: ### Comment early on a dream client's post You write the comment yourself on LinkedIn. Ziplined never comments for you. ### See who engaged the next morning The ideal clients who liked or commented arrive in Slack or email. ### Start from what they wrote A comment says what they care about. Reply to that, in your own words. ### Ask your AI agent Claude or ChatGPT reads the same posts and people through Ziplined's MCP, a connection for AI agents. The LinkedIn Lead Radar - Watch your market for buying signals - Analyze your own audience - Takes no action on LinkedIn Works with - Claude - ChatGPT - Grok Bot - Cursor - Slack - HeyReach - Google Sheets - Clay [Start 7 days free, 3,000 credits included](https://app.ziplined.io/sign-up) ## FAQ ### How do I get notified when a specific person posts on LinkedIn? Open their profile and click the bell next to their photo, then choose All. You need to follow or be connected with them first. LinkedIn then notifies you in your Notifications tab each time they post (LinkedIn Help, checked 12 November 2026). ### How do I turn LinkedIn notifications on? Click your profile picture, then Settings & Privacy, then Notifications. Pick a category under Notifications you receive and choose what you want. For one person's posts, use the bell on their profile (LinkedIn Help, checked 13 November 2026). ### Can I get an email when someone posts on LinkedIn? LinkedIn's bell shows the alert in the app; we found no email option for it in LinkedIn Help. Ziplined emails you about the ideal clients who engage with the posts you track, not about the new post itself. ### Does the person know I turned on notifications for their posts? No. LinkedIn does not tell members who subscribes to their posts, and they cannot see how many people did (LinkedIn Help, checked 12 November 2026). ### Can I get LinkedIn post alerts in Slack? Not from LinkedIn. With Ziplined you get a Slack or email alert about the people who like or comment on the posts of the people you track, hourly, daily or weekly. That alert is about the people, not about the new post itself. ### Does Ziplined tell me when a competitor publishes a new post? Not yet: an alert for the new post itself is coming soon. Today Ziplined lists their new posts after the next nightly check, sorted by how many ideal clients engaged, and alerts you about the ideal clients who engage with them. ### How fast does Ziplined see a new post? The next night. Ziplined reads the posts of the people you track from 02:05 UTC, the last 7 days and up to 20 posts each. It is never real time. ### Can I track a company page's posts? Yes. Paste the company page's link, and the people who like and comment on its posts come in every night, like a person's. ### How many people can I track? As many as you like: credits are the only limit. Each post costs 1 credit, and each like or comment 1 credit, including people who do not fit your ideal client: a post with 40 likes and comments costs 41 credits. Ziplined shows an estimate before you add someone. ### Does Ziplined like or comment on the posts for me? No. Ziplined takes no action on LinkedIn: it never likes, comments, connects or sends. You comment yourself. ### Do I need the Chrome extension to track someone's posts? No. Their posts and the people who engage with them come in without it. The extension is optional and only adds your own profile viewers, new followers and new connections. ### How much does it cost? Ziplined Solo is $49 a month with 3,000 credits, and Slack and email alerts are on every plan. Team, from $99 a month, adds HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets and webhooks. 7 days free. ## Keep reading ### [LinkedIn competitor analysis](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-competitor-analysis) [Your competitors' engagers who fit, sent to your tools.](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/linkedin-competitor-analysis) ### [Export LinkedIn post engagers](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/export-linkedin-post-engagers) [The people who like and comment on posts, filtered on your ideal client.](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/export-linkedin-post-engagers) ### [LinkedIn leads in Slack](https://ziplined.io/integrations/slack) [Your new warm Leads in one Slack channel, on every plan.](https://ziplined.io/integrations/slack) ### [Social selling tools](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/social-selling-tools) [The four kinds, and where Ziplined fits.](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/social-selling-tools) ### [Pricing](https://ziplined.io/pricing) [Plans from $49 a month, with 7 days free.](https://ziplined.io/pricing) ## Send the people who engage with your team and your competitors to your tools Seven days free, with 3,000 credits. Setup takes a few minutes, and the first names come in the same day. 7 days free, card at checkout ยท No LinkedIn password