Some sick numbers...
… about the growth (ok, explosion) of Twitter. However, my favorite number is the smallest one in the entire post:
8 - Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008
Thats more than 1.5 years after the first tweet was sent. To me that shows that the team (and investors) took their time to study and understand what they had and started scaling later on. Todays headcount is 400….