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I keep trying to figure out how many employees actually built twitter in the first place. I've been on there a long time, but have never been a heavy user. Tw
by ben7799 4y ago
I keep trying to figure out how many employees actually built twitter in the first place.
I've been on there a long time, but have never been a heavy user.
Twitter seems like it was mostly complete a long long time ago. It's changed far far less than say facebook over the years. I'm sure stuff has changed but I would struggle to remember what's different than say 10 years ago.
They had 2000 people when they IPOed. But that was 5+ years after launch. If a hundred people had 90% of the functionality working the first couple of years it really does make you wonder how they got to 7500 employees.
From the outside it doesn't look like that much to show for 7500 employees. It makes me wonder what the infrastructure looks like. Is the software to sell ads that most of us don't see much bigger and more sophisticated than Twitter itself? How many people are taking care of data centers and doing "toil" ???
- toofy 4y agoat the time of their ipo, the user base was smaller. as your user base grows, obviously you need significantly more people to run the organization. when the user base grew (we'll ignore the insane chaotic ways scaling impacts technological needs) so did the needs of a significant existence in other countries, those countries laws, the societal and cultural impacts, advertising in other countries, etc...
- lamontcg 4y ago> I'm sure stuff has changed but I would struggle to remember what's different than say 10 years ago. Didn't have to comply with the GDPR because it didn't exist. Wasn't scrutinized as much over issues of speech and harassment (GamerGate hadn't happened yet). Didn't have nation states attempting to manipulate the platform for propaganda purposes.
- user_named 4y agoYou think that Twitter is a code base. It's not. It's a business.