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by vox_mollis 3661 days ago
Par for the course. TWTR has nearly 4000 employees. Twitter.

Human organizations always scale to accommodate available resources, not required functionality.

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WhatsApp famously has 55 employees and over a billion monthly active users. That should be the role model for today's startups!

I think it's conceivable the reason you don't see much innovation from Twitter for years now, is that they have the organizational equivalent of traffic gridlock. It's simply impossible to get anything done with that many stakeholders.