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It's always interesting to read such articles. 7,500 Employees? Bah, too much! 100 Engineers will do!!

I raise you to 50 employees, the number WhatsApp had when they reached 1 billion users.

So where's the mistake the author makes? Simple: Twitter is a globally active social media application and, as such, falls under local jurisdiction in a lot of countries. E.g. in the European Union, Twitter has to remove content flagged as "terrorist" within one (1) hour. 24/7. Yes, on Thanksgiving Day too.

And that's what the bulk of employees will be: content supervisors. Moderators.

Or "age verification" agents - Britain has it's "Online Safety Bill" in place, and it applies to any social media site accessible in Britain.