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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Yoric on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:26AM (#33704186)
Not tech but I'm convinced that just answering LEO requests from all over the world takes at least 500 people. That's without their managers, payrolls, etc.

Likewise, bringing in Ad money would be a few more hundreds, because you need to chase leads in all countries.

Getting the Ads to work? That's tech and I'd be surprised if it was less than 100 people, too.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by bushbaba on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:59AM (#33704411)
Tracking ads conversions, targeting, refinement of models, latency reduction , data analytics, ads sales, sales ops, etc. yeah easily 1000 employees all in.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Yoric on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:23AM (#33706088)
I was only thinking of getting ads to work (from displaying ad previews to announcers to actually delivering them). If you add all the sales, analytics and performance, yeah, that climbs quickly.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by tiahura on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:41AM (#33706283)
Not tech but I'm convinced that just answering LEO requests from all over the world takes at least 500 people.

I subpoena telcos all the time. My sense is that the number is closer to 2 to 3 dozen.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Yoric on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:00PM (#33709635)
For the entire world? How does someone from an office in (say) Morocco checks whether a subpoena equivalent from (for instance) Lybia is legit?
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by donkeyd on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:57AM (#33706483)
For a second I was confused how Starlink requests were relevant for Twitter. Then I realized you meant 'law enforcement officer' not 'low-earth orbit'.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Yoric on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:58PM (#33709612)
Oops :)
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