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How dumb do you have to be to think twitter could be run by 30 people? They probably have more than 30 account managers alone.

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That comment reminds me of Quora questions like this one: https://www.quora.com/I-am-confident-that-I-am-going-to-buil...

I guess I would just point to GitHub, Shopify, Pandora, Spotify, Snapchat, LinkedIn, MailChimp, WordPress.Com, (insert everyone else basically here).

Of these, only GitHub, Mailchimp and Auttomatic have less than 1000 employees. All have more than 500.

(That doesn't mean that Twitter isn't too big or grew too early, but it does mean that none of those nowadays qualify as "see how you can run a big product with 30 people")

You're making a stretch, here. The difference between 100 to 500 or 1000 is exponentially different than the difference of 100 to 3,700. They don't need this many people. Period. This is a "who's dick is bigger" contest over a thinly veiled (and absurd) justification of infrastructure. No one outside of this bubble buys this shit. There are global supply-chain networks that move millions of products, and they don't employ as much as a micro-blogging platform. Come on, now.

and they only need account managers because they are selling advertising. They could have chosen to monetize their platform another way but lacked the creativity to do so.

We'll never know whether your unstated genius creative idea for how to monetize Twitter would have worked. Tis a shame.

Yeah, I'm certainly not going to post it here.

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