[Kudos]

prominent - adjective 1. important; famous.

12.6K twitter followers disagree with you. For comparison, founder PJ Hyett has 14.9K.

[mason240]

And Linus Torvalds has 7.9k followers. Number of followers is a pretty terrible metric for prominence.

https://twitter.com/Linus__Torvalds

[ehutch79]

prominent employee, sure, engineer no.

you can be a really shitty engineer, or not one at all and have thousands of twitter followers.

[Kudos]

That's not what prominent means.

[vacri]

'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.

[korzun]

Did you really just use number of followers to gauge something?

[Kudos]

No, I used it as an indicator of fame.

[korzun]

Equally stupid.

[Kudos]

Wow, good argument there. Tell me why it's not an indicator of fame in this case?