
X/Twitter: number of employees 2008-2021
X/Twitter's corporate demography
In 2020, the majority of X/Twitter'semployees 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 X/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. X/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 X/Twitter whereby women were represented well was in the Non-tech departments. In 2017, women held 53.7 percent of non-tech roles.