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A Graphical Look At Twitter Employees’ Interactions On Twitter [INTERACTIVE MAP]

Allison Stadd — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:00:31 +0000

Data visualization is at an all-time high, as graphic designers and web whizzes compute cooler and cooler ways to display the infinite stream of data flying around the Internet daily.

Find of the week: designer Santiago Ortiz created a data visualization examining how all the people who work at Twitter interact on – well, Twitter.

Check it out, below.

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If It Really Wants To Succeed, Twitter Needs To Hire More Female Executives

Shea Bennett — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:00:50 +0000

A study from Dow Jones VentureSource last week looked at how women are shaping modern businesses, and found that startup companies with a high percentage of female executives are generally more successful than those who skew overwhelmingly towards men.

The survey analysed more than 20,000 companies, and Glam Media, a lifestyle content creator which runs a number of websites, was singled out for high praise amongst all startups, as 29 percent of its 28 executives are female.

Which contrasts somewhat sharply with Twitter, which has the heady total of one senior female executive within its roster.

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Twitter Now Employs More Than 1,000 People

Shea Bennett — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:00:21 +0000

1,046 to be precise. Which means that the firm has been on a serious hiring spree.

Back in January, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that Twitter employed “about 900 people”. I’ve been tracking the company’s staff roster pretty closely for a number of years now and, by looking at the rate of employee acquisition since 2008, I concluded that Twitter should have been sorting out the paperwork for its 1,000th employee “within about six months”, which turned out to be a pretty good guess.

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94% Of All Twitter Employee Tweets Are Sent Via Official Twitter Products [STATS]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:36 +0000

Last April, I took a look at the products that Twitter staff members were using to send their tweets, publishing the results on our sister blog, Social Times. Back then, some 85 percent of all tweets from Twitter employees came via official Twitter products, with 32 percent of those from Twitter.com.

Fast-forward almost a year later, and Twitter’s stranglehold on how its employees tweet has increased – a heady 94 percent of all staff tweets now come from official Twitter products.

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Twitter Now Employs 833 People, Targets 1,000 By Year End [STATS]

Shea Bennett — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:25 +0000

Last month Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that the company now employs “about 900 people”. I’ve been tracking Twitter’s staff count pretty closely for a few years now, and while it’s certainly true that Twitter’s hiring spree is on a major uptrend, with some serious growth in the past few weeks, either Costolo rounded up a little, or Twitter themselves are slow to update their own data, because their current roster looks to be set at 833 people.

Impressive, for sure – and by my calculations, Twitter should hire its 1000th employee before the end of this year.

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Twitter Now Employs More Than 700 People

Shea Bennett — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:45:23 +0000

We’ve tracked Twitter’s staff roster pretty closely at AllTwitter over the past couple of years. Back in May 2009 the company’s employment count was just 69 (dude). By February of this year that number had jumped to almost 400, reached 500 in May and 600 in June, when the company hired more than 70 people in a month.

Things have slowed a little since then, and Twitter has let a few key people go, but the company is still picking up new bodies at a decent pace, and now boasts a staff of more than 700.

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Trouble At Twitter? Key Players Leave After $800 Million Funding Round

Shea Bennett — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:00:14 +0000

Following a massive $800 million round of funding, Twitter board members Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson, two of the company’s earliest investors, have both stepped down.

It’s the latest in a series of big employee changes at Twitter that have taken place since founder member Jack Dorsey resumed control of the company back in March.

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Jack Dorsey Takes Firmer Hold Of His Twitter As Four Key Players Are Shown The Door

Shea Bennett — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:00:08 +0000

Couple of updates from the world of Twitter personnel – TechCrunch is reporting that four key product mangers have been let go: Kevin Cheng, Josh Elman, Anamitra Banerji and Jean-Paul Cozzatti.

It’s currently unclear if they walked or were fired. All have been with the company since way back.

Twitter isn’t saying much (“some people have left the company and we appreciate their contributions”), but there’s some speculation that they were pushed out by Jack Dorsey, as he looks to tidy up anyone still affiliated with the Evan Williams/Biz Stone/Jason Goldman regime, taking a firmer grip on the house that Jack built.

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Twitter Hires 73 New People In A Month, Closes In On 600 Employees

Shea Bennett — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:30:20 +0000

In late May we reported on how Twitter was on the verge of hiring its 500th employee, which meant that in just two years the company had expanded significantly from its May 2009 roster of 69 members of staff.

As of today that total is up to 572. That’s right – Twitter has recruited 73 new people in just one month.

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Twitter Employees Use Lists… But Barely [INFOGRAPHIC]

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:02 +0000

Although I think lists are among the most (potentially) powerful feature of Twitter, it seems like its own employees aren’t too keen on them. A look at how Twitter’s employees use lists reveals some pretty interesting stats. For instance, just under half of their 500+ employees (44.09 percent) have never created their own Twitter list.
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Twitter About To Hit 500 Employees (And 5% Of Them Still Have The Default Avatar)

Shea Bennett — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:50:26 +0000

In February I wrote about Twitter’s escalating employee count, which was closing in on 400 members of staff. Way back in May 2009 – when Twitter was black and white and mostly made out of wood – that number was just 69 (dude).

Now, just three and a bit months later, Twitter’s roster has jumped by over 25%, and is about to hit 500.

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How do Twitter Employees use Twitter? [Infographic]

Lauren Dugan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:30:09 +0000

Would you be surprised to hear that Twitter employees use official Twitter apps to send and read their tweets much more often than the general public? Probably not, but that’s what Business Insider found after looking into just how Twitter employees actually used Twitter.
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Rumor: Twitter Hires Bing Search Scientist Alek Kotcz

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:30:38 +0000

It looks like Twitter has enticed yet another former Microsoft employee over to its team: Alek Kotcz, Principle Scientist at Microsoft’s Bing search engine appears to have left Bing for Twitter. Although this is still in rumor phase, there are several indications that Kotcz has joined the Twitter team, and we expect this to be made official in the coming days.
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Would You Like To Work At Twitter? Good News: They're Hiring

Shea Bennett — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Twitter currently has 27 job vacancies.

In what, you ask? Pretty much everything, including administration, analytics, business development, media, engineering, internationalization, IT & website operations, API, research, design and search.

You can basically take your pick. It’s all part of the big expansion towards profitability that Biz Stone talked about back in November.

And if you want to know why you might like to work at Twitter, you can read the pitch here.

(Thanks to @Hulkster1970 for the scoop.)

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Hey, Brands On Twitter: What Happens To Their Work Account When Your Star Employee Quits?

Shea Bennett — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:08:28 +0000

You’re a huge, global brand, and you’re on Twitter. You have lots of support employees on the network, and sensibly you’ve each allocated them a @name_company or @company_name username (i.e., ASOS_james). You have a unit working under your name, and they’re doing good things.

One of your employees becomes the real star of the team, and gets tens of thousands of followers over many months, offering fantastic support and just enough personality to be a hit. He starts getting a lot of attention.

Then one day, suddenly, he quits.

What now?

Some things to consider:

Do you allow him to announce in his (current) Twitter account that he’s moving to another company, even if it’s a rival?
Do you let another employee take over the account? And do you do this on the sly, or do you make it public knowledge?
Do you rename the account, allocating it to another employee? What about those 50,000 followers – how are they going to react knowing their superstar is no longer in charge?
Do you let the person running the account rename it, and take it over, doing with it as they will?
Or do you just close the account? What about all those cases they solved, and help they gave? There’s a history there.

This is going to be a big deal in the future. I can see lawyers getting involved deciding who really ‘owns’ the tweets on employee accounts – or even the account itself. Yes, you’re tweeting on company time using company resources, but it’s your personality that’s made that account a success. It’s you that nurtured those followers, and it’s you that turned them into clients. When star salespeople leave companies, they often take clients with them. Indeed, their clients want to go.Â Why should it be any different on Twitter?

If you’re an individual like Jeremiah Owyang that moves his essentially personal account between companies, then it’s less of a problem. Owyang is the account. He takes it with him when he leaves. This perhaps seems like the right way forward, but it’s not necessarily best practice for companies to let employees use their personal accounts for work (and vice versa). And both lose the advantages of being associated with the brand name.

It becomes significantly less clear about what is the right thing to do – in both the contractual and ethical sense – if somebody becomes a superstar on Twitter using their work-only account, and then leaves. By association, the company becomes a superstar, too, particularly if the individual is being applauded for great support, and the ramifications of what happens when he or she quits (or, daresay, is fired) are considerable.

And as such, it might be worth thinking about the inevitability of that future now, as opposed to when it actually happens. Because believe me, it will.

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