ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok and newsfeed app Toutiao, has doubled its headcount to ~40,000 in one year and now operates more than 20 apps
isn't this Internet cultural phenomenon cute? Andrew Batson / @andrewbatson : According to this piece, fully 1/4 of ByteDance's headcount (10,000 of 40,000 employees) is occupied in “monitoring” (aka censoring) content. That's as many people as it has doing ad sales, and twice as many as it has software engineers. http://twitter.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : ByteDance now has 4,000+ more people than Facebook and “operates more than 20 apps.” Everyone should learn more about TikTok's parent! http://www.theinformation.com/ ... Juro Osawa / @juroosawa : ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, has gone on a massive hiring spree in the past year. Its headcount has roughly doubled to 40,000—more than Facebook. Story by @_SylviaZhang. http://www.theinformation.com/ ... via @theinformation