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Worth mentioning only 5,000 people work at Twitter.
by alpb 6y ago
Worth mentioning only 5,000 people work at Twitter.
- Jaruzel 6y agoThere are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts. That ratio is massively high compared to a large corporate (i.e, a global bank). In a typical global bank lets says there are 100,000 employees, with about 25-50 IT people with the rights to admin accounts (from first line support to third line engineers) that's only 2,000-4,000 users per IT admin person. Based on that, I'm surprised that it's only 1,000 staff members in Twitter with admin access, and not the whole company.
- amf12 6y ago> There are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts. I think we should look at how many daily requests they get to reset account access settings (that cannot be done automatically - via some system rather than through these 1k users).
- alpb 6y agoI am not sure why this bank example keeps coming up. Almost no twitter user tries to contact support like they contact their teller for their bank. It’s really bad that 20% of the company had access to user data. No wonder it was abused in the past. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...
- thinkingemote 6y agoTwitter is an advertisement company so most of the employees will be in sales and marketing. Those probably don't need admin access.