Whatsapp had 1B users with far fewer eng, why is Twitter so big?
Here is my back of the envelope math of how big I think the company should be for their main offering.
Over the past years Twitter has acquired a ton of companies, but I'm going to leave them out of this equation.
Here is my back of the envelope math of how big I think the company should be for their main offering. Over the past years Twitter has acquired a ton of companies, but I'm going to leave them out of this equation.
Eng (250)
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Backend/Storage: 100 eng
Subscriptions: 50
Front-End: 50 eng
iOS App: 20 eng
Android App: 20 eng
UX: 10
Abuse/Moderation (200) ========================= Abuse: 100 Moderation: 100
Marketing/Sales (210)
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PR/Marketing: 30
Ad Sales: 180
Mgmt/overhead (40)
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Legal/GDPR/compliance: 20
HR/Recruiting : 10
CEO/CFO/etc.: 10
What do you think? How far off am I? If more people turn to subscriptions perhaps the abuse/moderation team will shrink in the future.