At the end of the most recently reported year, microblogging and social networking company X (formerly Twitter) employed 7,500 people, up from 5,500 people in the previous year.
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.
*Figures regarding 2008 to 2011 depict the number of Twitter employees as of January of the respective year, not December 31 as usual with reporting. No data available for missing years.
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