[UPDATED] Twitter’s Staff is 0% Black Women

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UPDATED on 9/21/2015 at 5:00 PM: Although Twitter’s statistic for black women on staff renders as 0% according to the Verge’s metrics, there are 14 black women on staff at the company.

Those of us familiar with the lack of diversity in the tech industry may not be surprised to hear that Twitter has 0% black women employees (the number of black employees in total amounts to 2%).

The demographic statistics for other major tech companies surveyed (e.g. Google, Facebook) lack parity across the board, but out of all the companies surveyed, Twitter was the company with the lowest percentage of black women on staff. This is particularly depressing given the audience demographics for Twitter users, the majority of whom are black (via Pew).

http://www.themarysue.com/black-women-twitter/

What is up with that?