8000 is an insane amount. That's an entire small town. And Twitter doesn't exactly have world renown customer service, products, or customer facing division where they need a massive amount of employees to meet daily demand.
In all seriousness, i think Jack and his demon lawyer talked about this briefly on their Joe Rogan appearance with Tim Pool.
A lot of it is teams based in countries moderating and servicing the platform in all the other languages, as well as bacl end engineers and all the rest of it.
But this is how it is with a highly operation based business at this scale, the vast majority of employees are literal cogs in the machine. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, all the same.
The larger or inflated the Engineering workforce, the lower the standards are, but they are paid far too much.
I bet you are doing a lot of custom work in those $50M+ contracts, right? Heavy SDLC, constant change orders. Twitter on the other hand, is providing what is fundamentally a very static yet scalable service, with very few actual changes. I'm guessing their workload these days is 90% operations, 10% break/fix, and 10% product development at best. Which means you don't need hundreds let alone thousands on the tech side.
Giant companies like Twitter frequently bloat. You might have a whole team in charge of just one aspect of the feed algorithm. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if they had dedicated departments for each iOS and Android, despite the idea that Twitter is almost certainly API driven... Again because of the bloat inherent in these giant companies.
Twitter also most likely has translators and content moderators for all kinds of locales. That said I'm not trying to cover for them, we know they're shady as anything and Faucis daughter works there as an "engineer"
8000 is an insane amount. That's an entire small town. And Twitter doesn't exactly have world renown customer service, products, or customer facing division where they need a massive amount of employees to meet daily demand.
Think censorship and it explains everything.
They're fact checkers. Duh.
CIA contractors.
No show Jobs for the deep state.
Probably have lots of sons and grandsons,of famous a-holes.
Shadow ban and Fluff Guberment lackeys!!
In all seriousness, i think Jack and his demon lawyer talked about this briefly on their Joe Rogan appearance with Tim Pool.
A lot of it is teams based in countries moderating and servicing the platform in all the other languages, as well as bacl end engineers and all the rest of it.
Damnit, this is so true unfortunately.
But this is how it is with a highly operation based business at this scale, the vast majority of employees are literal cogs in the machine. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, all the same.
The larger or inflated the Engineering workforce, the lower the standards are, but they are paid far too much.
Good point.
In-house shill sevices, bot programming and censors?
I bet you are doing a lot of custom work in those $50M+ contracts, right? Heavy SDLC, constant change orders. Twitter on the other hand, is providing what is fundamentally a very static yet scalable service, with very few actual changes. I'm guessing their workload these days is 90% operations, 10% break/fix, and 10% product development at best. Which means you don't need hundreds let alone thousands on the tech side.
/VP of Tech
Giant companies like Twitter frequently bloat. You might have a whole team in charge of just one aspect of the feed algorithm. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if they had dedicated departments for each iOS and Android, despite the idea that Twitter is almost certainly API driven... Again because of the bloat inherent in these giant companies.
Twitter also most likely has translators and content moderators for all kinds of locales. That said I'm not trying to cover for them, we know they're shady as anything and Faucis daughter works there as an "engineer"