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Putting aside the accusation of bias for a second, which is obviously hard to prove, 2 things come to mind. 1) Why would it take a team to do this job? Was it
by logicalmonster 4y ago
Putting aside the accusation of bias for a second, which is obviously hard to prove, 2 things come to mind.
1) Why would it take a team to do this job? Was it a large team? I joke, but seeing what's trending and giving a short human description could seemingly be done by a part-time intern while on a bathroom break. I could imagine some reasons for this, but I'm curious.
2) Perhaps a company that's been bleeding money doesn't need to spend money on these kind of roles? You hate to see anybody lose a good job, but it's better than the entire company going under because you can never turn a profit.
- plorkyeran 4y agoThe trending topics were hyper-localized, often down to the city. It's a very small task that they scaled up to a massive degree. Twitter pre-acquisition wasn't bleeding money, and it's plausible that these positions had positive ROI if they increased engagement and thus ad views.