Twitter: number of employees 2008-2021

At the end of the most recently reported year, microblogging and social networking company Twitter employed 7,500 people, up from 5,500 people in the previous year.

Twitter’s corporate demography

In 2020, the majority of Twitter’s employees were male with a share of 57 percent and of a white ethnicity with 41 percent. African American and Latinx ethnicities were severely underrepresented with only 6.5 and 5.4 percent share respectively of all employees at Twitter.
Distribution of Twitter employees by gender and department in 2020 is revealing. In tech departments, over 73 percent of employees were male. Men also dominated the leadership departments with 62 percent. Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in March 2006 and since then, a man has always held top positions of chairman and CEO. The only department at Twitter whereby women were represented well was in the Non-tech departments. In 2017, women held 53.7 percent of non-tech roles.

Other social media companies

The gender landscape at Facebook in 2020 followed a similar vein. The distribution of Facebook employees worldwide by gender and department revealed that men dominated the tech departments with a 76 percent share and senior level positions with a 66 percent share.
It will be interesting to see if the gender and ethnic distribution of the world’s leading social network companies improves in the future.