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I have friends who worked at Craigslist, and was astonished to hear them describe a team of IIRC 35-40 employees. They have somewhere around 50 now? Makes you w
by asteli 8y ago
I have friends who worked at Craigslist, and was astonished to hear them describe a team of IIRC 35-40 employees. They have somewhere around 50 now? Makes you wonder what those 3k+ employees at Twitter all do.
- gammateam 8y agoA lot of companies have an affinity towards jobs numbers, and derive benefits from the local municpality by being able to print job numbers It simultaneously helps the organization’s tax efficiency and MAYBE something interesting gets developed
- gfosco 8y agoSales, Marketing, Partnerships, Content Moderation/Censorship.
- samatman 8y agoWhile this doesn't explain all of the difference, Twitter tries, and largely succeeds, to distribute both Tweets and likes in mere seconds, all around the world, while maintaining a search that can find any string in relatively recent messages. That this is a substantially harder mandate than that of Craigslist I take as a given.