[verletx64]

Twitter has a lot of staff. Even 1% is a relatively large amount of people.

[ComputerGuru]

(Just as an FYI, the last time I checked that number was staggeringly skewed towards sales/marketing/evangelism teams rather than coders. Not that your point is diminished.)

[jacobsenscott]

Those people probably have more access to PII than staff engineers - that's who the data is for.

[ComputerGuru]

Hardly. They get the filtered data that SEs designed for them to get, probably on an account-by-account basis. It’s the raw data SEs have access to that we are mainly talking about here.

[CydeWeys]

It doesn't need to be 1% of staff, it just needs to be a few dozen people (distributed geographically across the globe) who have root access.

[RhysU]

Moreover, anyone seeking privileged access will percolate into such roles.