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23rd March 2011

“Twitter is growing like crazy—I’ve heard that half a million new users sign up every month—so the staff has grown like crazy, too. My lunch date, Del Harvey, who is the head of Trust and Security, joined when there were only twenty-five employees; now, just four years later, there are four hundred. That’s big enough that a Twitter employee might be following another Twitter employee on Twitter without realizing they both worked for the company. I’m not exactly sure what all those four hundred people do. I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.”

~ Susan Orlean