How Twitter Employees Send Their Tweets (Compared To You, Me And Everybody Else)

Using Twitter's API, Business Insider have tapped into the last few thousand tweets of the official Twitter employee list and determined the source - that is, the specific software client used to send those tweets - and crunched the numbers, and the results are pretty interesting.

Using Twitter’s API, Business Insider have tapped into the last few thousand tweets of the official Twitter employee list and determined the source – that is, the specific software client used to send those tweets – and crunched the numbers, and the results are pretty interesting.

As you would expect, the Twitter staff member’s client of choice appears to be Twitter.com. Or, at least, ‘web’. That’s fairly non-specific, because we know that the Twitter.com that the company’s employees use has a lot more ‘nifty features’ than the stinky old grey husk that the rest of us are lumbered with, as Twitter’s then-lead engineer Alex Payne (@al3x) confirmed over a year ago.

(Btw, that tweet has now been deleted, but believe me, he said it.

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