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Sorry why did Twitter need 7000. Employees? How many many were engineers?

• deleted 4y ago
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• mkl95 4y ago
  Not sure, but a good hint is that Twitter make most of their money from ads and data. They could have thousands of sales people.
• willsmith72 4y ago
  I saw an article that at least 1-2k are on moderation/safety
  • Raed667 4y ago
    How come they don't they outsource to Accenture the same way Facebook does? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/technology/facebook-accenture-content-moderation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/technology/facebook-accen...
• vntok 4y ago
  Yes that was insane. Exactly one year before Whatsapp sold to Facebook for 19 billion dollars, that is in February 2013, they had about 200 million active users and 50 staff members. And not all of those staff members were developers I imagine.
• Maken 4y ago
  They have datacenters around the globe and small teams in other countries, both to hadle the local infraestructure and to have always someone on the clock in case some problem arises. For example, in my country they had 11 employes handling the datacenters (which apparently have been also fired).
  • kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
    For short form messages. How many employees does Fastmail have?
    • Macha 4y ago
      720 from a quick search. And they aren't even running an ad platform
    • everfrustrated 4y ago
      According to LinkedIn they have 330 employees which has been static for the last couple of years. Median tenure 9.6 years!