{"id":331261,"date":"2010-02-17T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=99854"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:57:13","slug":"a-little-perspective-twitter-now-has-140-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331261","title":{"rendered":"A Little Perspective: Twitter Now Has 140 Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Companies like Facebook and Automattic regularly brag about their user-to-engineer ratio — for instance, Facebook<\/a>’s was 1.2 million to 1 last fall. But employee-to-global-attention ratio? That’s where Twitter has everyone beat. The company\u00a0celebrated<\/a> its 140th employee (aka character) last night with an office dance party<\/a>. That’s a really small number compared to many measures of Twitter — its $1 billion valuation<\/a>, its 1 billion tweets per day<\/strike>month,<\/a> its seemingly millions of media mentions and integrations. As for other players in Twitter’s cohort of massive social web startups? YouTube says it has 400-500 employees, Facebook has more than 1,000, and Automattic (please see disclosure at the bottom) has around 40.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Automattic, maker of WordPress.com, is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Companies like Facebook and Automattic regularly brag about their user-to-engineer ratio — for instance, Facebook’s was 1.2 million to 1 last fall. But employee-to-global-attention ratio? That’s where Twitter has everyone beat. The company\u00a0celebrated its 140th employee (aka character) last night with an office dance party. That’s a really small number compared to many measures of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}