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Twitter Exceeds 140 Characters, Er, Employees
- VentureBeat, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:22 PM
Engaged in an enviable hiring frenzy, Twitter just crossed what VentureBeat calls the "symbolic" 140-employee mark -- the same number of characters that the microblogging network allows its users
to tweet a one time. But, it's not stopping there.
On Twitter's job page, there are presently at least 27 openings, mostly for tech experts. As VentureBeat observes, the hiring binge comes
on the heals of a funding round -- which valued the company at $1 billion. One of the newest Twitter employees is Robin Sloan, previously head of strategy for Current TV. Venture also notes that
Twitter is overcoming it highly-publicized usership slump. It attracted 73.5 million unique individuals in January -- up 8% from the previous month, according to comScore.
