TheBlueDot

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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
That's called life, it's not unique to Twitter. How would one "leak" such information?
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
Half a billion but... People are expensive, office space in their 30+ offices is expensive, hundreds of thousands of servers are expensive...
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
I'm talking about rude comments about the intelligent people that work there. Where do you work, lets compare products/people and the impact the product makes on the world shall we?
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
Also, it's amusing yet disturbing the disconnect. Just three days before this leak everyone was told we're doing well, we're going to grow and hire more people and build these great new things. They also had a big talk about
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
Well, there goes my weekend/week. As someone who joined Twitter recently this sucks. I left a great job to come work at Twitter because I believe in what they're building and now a few months in I might be looking again. :-( To be
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
What's interesting is they've had a lot of leaks...a leak like this comes from someone high up so that's a problem they need to fix. Moments leaks, Jack as CEO leaked...big old bucket there. If it's actually engineering
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
With almost 50 (17 in the last two years) acquisitions most of the growth is from that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
It's not about user base, it's about revenue. I think their revenue per employee is still ~$500k which is pretty good.
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by TheBlueDot 11y ago
Not really, but close. That number includes PMs and design, I think just engineering is closer to 40%. Still big though.