Twitter users are diverse but not its staff – USA Today (Jan 19, 2017)

Lots of the coverage of Twitter’s new diversity report (and accompanying blog post) today was positive – the company has made real progress over the past year in increasing its diversity and achieving its own goals, though it also fell short in some areas. However, Jessica Guynn at USA Today has been one of the most active reporters on the diversity beat and doesn’t think the gains are good enough – for one thing, Twitter didn’t share last year’s equivalent report, so it’s impossible to know exactly what gains have been made over the past year alone (the last report released publicly was the 2014 one). But the overall numbers for some minority groups are still very small relative to their share of the US population overall. Kudos to Twitter for increasing its diversity, but kudos to Guynn too, for holding not just Twitter’s but all tech companies’ feet to the fire on this issue.

via Twitter users are diverse but not its staff – USA Today


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