There are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts.
That ratio is massively high compared to a large corporate (i.e, a global bank). In a typical global bank lets says there are 100,000 employees, with about 25-50 IT people with the rights to admin accounts (from first line support to third line engineers) that's only 2,000-4,000 users per IT admin person.
Based on that, I'm surprised that it's only 1,000 staff members in Twitter with admin access, and not the whole company.
I am not sure why this bank example keeps coming up. Almost no twitter user tries to contact support like they contact their teller for their bank. It’s really bad that 20% of the company had access to user data. No wonder it was abused in the past. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...
> There are ~330 million active twitter users, which means 330,000 users per employee with access to admin accounts.
I think we should look at how many daily requests they get to reset account access settings (that cannot be done automatically - via some system rather than through these 1k users).
That ratio is massively high compared to a large corporate (i.e, a global bank). In a typical global bank lets says there are 100,000 employees, with about 25-50 IT people with the rights to admin accounts (from first line support to third line engineers) that's only 2,000-4,000 users per IT admin person.
Based on that, I'm surprised that it's only 1,000 staff members in Twitter with admin access, and not the whole company.