How to See Who Liked a LinkedIn Post (and What to Do With the List, 2026)

Quick answer: Here’s how to see who liked a LinkedIn post: click the reaction count under the post (the small icons with a number next to them). A list opens with everyone who reacted, sorted into tabs by reaction type. It works on desktop and mobile, on your own posts and on anyone else’s post you can see. What LinkedIn won’t show you is who viewed the post without reacting.

I spent months opening that list by hand for my coaching pipeline. Here’s how to do it, what the list does and doesn’t tell you, and what to do with the names once you have them.

How to see who liked a LinkedIn post on desktop

1. Find the post. Your own posts live under Me, then Posts & Activity. Anyone else’s post works the same way once it’s on your screen.
2. Click the reaction count. It sits in the lower-left of the post, just above the Like, Comment, and Repost buttons.
3. Read the list. A window opens with an “All” tab plus one tab per reaction type. Each row shows the person’s name, headline, and connection degree.
4. Click a name to open the profile. That’s where you check whether they could actually buy from you.

How to see who liked a LinkedIn post on mobile

1. Open the post in the LinkedIn app.
2. Tap the reaction icons and count under the post.
3. Swipe between the tabs to filter by reaction type.

Same list, smaller screen. If you’re going through more than a handful of people, do it on desktop.

What the reactions list shows you

“Like” is only one of six reactions. Per LinkedIn’s help page on reactions, the others are Celebrate, Support, Love, Insightful, and Funny. The tabs in the list split people by which one they picked.

That split is worth more than it looks. When I was manually scraping LinkedIn likes for my coaching pipeline, a plain Like told me the least. Someone who tapped Insightful on a post about a specific problem was usually closer to having that problem. I break down how much weight each signal deserves in LinkedIn reactions lead generation.

A few other places the same trick works:

• Comment reactions. Comments have their own reaction count. Click it to see who agreed with a specific comment, which ties the person to one specific point, not the whole post.
• Reposts. The repost count opens a list of who shared the post.
• Your own post analytics. Click “View analytics” on your post. LinkedIn’s post analytics help page says it breaks your viewers down by job title, location, company, company size, industry, and seniority.

What LinkedIn won’t show you

Who viewed your post. Analytics gives you impressions and the demographic breakdown above, not names. LinkedIn’s help page also notes that demographic data only appears when there are enough unique viewers to protect individual privacy.

Who viewed your profile because of the post, unless you pay. The same page says Premium members may see a “Who viewed your profile after this post” section, showing up to 100 recent profile viewers. That’s profile views, not post views.

Who liked it privately. There’s no private like. LinkedIn’s help page on liking and reacting says posts and comments you react to are shared with your network. That’s exactly why a reaction counts as a signal: the person put their name on it in public.

How to see who liked a LinkedIn post and turn it into leads

Seeing the list is the easy part. The work starts after. Here’s the routine I ran before I built LeadBase:

1. Pick posts your buyers would react to. Your own posts, or posts from people your buyers follow. A viral post from a creator in your space pulls a crowd of peers, not buyers.
2. Open the list and skip the obvious non-fits. Competitors, other coaches, recruiters, your existing network.
3. Check fit on the profile. Title, company size, whether they could actually sign.
4. Message with context. Reference the post they reacted to, not the fact that you saw their like. “Saw you liked my post” reads like surveillance. “You’ve clearly thought about this problem” reads like a conversation.
5. Log it. Name, post, reaction, date. Without a log you’ll message the same people twice.

The full daily version, with message examples, is in who liked my LinkedIn post leads. And reactions sit near the bottom of the signal ladder. A comment that names a pain beats any like. I rank them in LinkedIn buying signals.

Where this breaks down

The native list is fine for one post. It falls apart at ten. You’re opening each reaction list, clicking into each profile, judging fit, and copying names into a spreadsheet. For my coaching pipeline that ate most of a morning, and that’s why I built LeadBase. It pulls the people reacting to and commenting on LinkedIn posts into a scored list, so you start with the names that fit instead of a scroll of strangers.

Frequently asked questions

Can you see who liked someone else’s LinkedIn post? Yes. Click the reaction count under any post you can see, and the list of reactors opens, same as on your own posts.

Can you see who viewed your LinkedIn post? No. Post analytics shows impressions and a breakdown by job title, company, industry, and location, but not names.

Do people know when you look at who liked a post? Nothing on LinkedIn’s help pages says they’re told. Opening a reactor’s profile is a different matter, since profile views can show up in their “Who viewed your profile” list depending on your privacy settings.

Can you like a LinkedIn post privately? No. LinkedIn shares the posts and comments you react to with your network.

Is a like a good sales lead? It’s a weak one on its own. Check fit first, then look for a stronger signal like a comment or a profile visit before you treat it as warm.

What to do next

See how it works: LeadBase turns the people reacting to and commenting on LinkedIn posts into a scored list of warm leads.

Read next: LinkedIn Engagement Tracking Tools: what each category actually tracks, and which one fits a solo founder.

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