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Only 3 years ago Twitter had 5000 employees. They now have 8000 in 2022. That's a massive headcount growth for a company whose stock price declined significantl
by dmix 4y ago
Only 3 years ago Twitter had 5000 employees. They now have 8000 in 2022. That's a massive headcount growth for a company whose stock price declined significantly since then.
- pyrrhotech 4y agoAnd no notable features have been released
- scarab92 4y agoIt seems like most of the layoffs are in trust, comms, creative, policy, wellness and those supporting these functions. If the rumours of 50% downsizing are correct these functions were way bigger than I expected.
- GVIrish 4y agoYou didn't see Twitter Spaces, Fleets, Birdwatch, Tweet Editing, and Twitter Blue? Some of those features have been successful for them, some not, but they've been releasing features.
- peanuty1 4y ago+ tipping, voice tweets, Patreon-style subscriptions for content creators, and being able to control who can reply to your tweets.
- estomagordo 4y agoThat is also the time period when they started showing a profit.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoNo new features, and from my seat I can see no new monitization model. Where is all this new money coming from, and why do suggest it requires these new employees to keep that stream flowing?
- ketzo 4y agoOperating a massive, distributed, real-time ad platform requires lots of engineers.
- partiallypro 4y agoBut how many of the new hires are engineers? I've read it has mostly been middle management hires.
- peanuty1 4y agoElon claims there are 10 managers for every person coding. I don't believe that.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> No new features Are the new features for advertisers rather than consumers?
- peanuty1 4y agoThere have been lots of new features like Twitter Spaces, tipping, voice tweets, Twitter Blue, Patreon-style subscriptions for content creators, controlling who can reply to your tweets, etc. However, some of the new features like fleets (temporary tweets) were deprecated.