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by TomGullen 4523 days ago
Wikipedia says they have 2,000 employees last year, without meaning to sound rude what exactly do they need all those employees for?
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adventured 4523 days ago
It's an interesting question. By comparison, at the end of 2010 Facebook had about 2,000 +/- employees and $2b in sales for that fiscal year. Twitter is roughly three times overstaffed compared to Facebook.
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mastermojo 4523 days ago
Do you happen to know how the active user base compares between 2010 Facebook and 2013 Twitter?
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ryanmerket 4523 days ago
Facebook had ~820M MAU at the end of Q4'2010. Twitter has ~230M MAU at the end of Q4'2013.

Sauce: http://lighthouseinsights.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/face...

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ceejayoz 4523 days ago
A good portion are likely selling ads and supporting advertisers.
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icedchai 4523 days ago
they're not doing a very good job. i can't remember the last time i clicked on a twitter ad.
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ceejayoz 4523 days ago
They're doing a pretty good job if they're managing to sell ads no one clicks on. I also don't click on Twitter ads, but I'd guess some folks are.
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wmeredith 4523 days ago
I've never even SEEN a Twitter ad. Maybe it's becuase I exclusively interact with the platform through Tweetbot and Buffer?
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