Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
by ghaff on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:17PM
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As a point of reference, even the Wikimedia Foundation had almost 300 staff and contractors as of 2015. This is admittedly a lot fewer than Twitter employs today. However, I suspect that even a minimalist Twitter without sales, etc. needs more employees and would have more of other types of costs than Wikimedia.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
by morgante on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:16PM
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> As a point of reference, even the Wikimedia Foundation had almost 300 staff and contractors as of 2015. This is admittedly a lot fewer than Twitter employs today.
Exactly, that's actually a pretty good argument for why Twitter should downsize substantially.
In no way does Twitter need more than 1,000 employees.
Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
by revelation on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:36PM
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And frankly, much of the same criticism applies to them. A tiny tiny sliver of their constantly multiplying budget is spent on actually hosting the Wikipedia.
Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
by ghaff on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:46PM
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That's somewhat fair. It's certainly true that Wikimedia has a fair number of active projects that haven't had much of an impact. Apparently there have been at least some discussions of streamlining their work although organizations universally find it hard to avoid scope creep.
I'd point out though that, according to Wikipedia :-), the Internet Archive has a staff of about 200 so a few hundred employees/contractors doesn't seem out out of line as the baseline for a non-profit information infrastructure project.