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prominent - adjective 1. important; famous. 12.6K twitter followers disagree with you. For comparison, founder PJ Hyett has 14.9K.

• ehutch79 13y ago
  prominent employee, sure, engineer no. you can be a really shitty engineer, or not one at all and have thousands of twitter followers.
  • Kudos 13y ago
    That's not what prominent means.
    • vacri 13y ago
      'prominent engineer' makes it sound like the prominence is due to being well-respected for skill in engineering, when it's apparently not. This is what ehutch79 is saying. As an example, my primary role in my company is administration of systems. I very rarely take out the trash, and sometimes refill the toilet rolls if they're low. It would be misleading to refer to me as a janitor, prominent or otherwise. Edit: I say 'apparently not' because she may be an awesome engineer, but her code is in private repos.
• mason240 13y ago
  And Linus Torvalds has 7.9k followers. Number of followers is a pretty terrible metric for prominence. https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds
• korzun 13y ago
  Did you really just use number of followers to gauge something?
  • Kudos 13y ago
    No, I used it as an indicator of fame.
    • korzun 13y ago
      Equally stupid.
      • Kudos 13y ago
        Wow, good argument there. Tell me why it's not an indicator of fame in this case?