How Profitable Is Twitter?

HOW PROFITABLE IS TWITTER? Here's how Twitter compares to other social media and Internet companies in terms of revenue per employee and profit per employee: ●Total Revenue Per Employee Total Profit Per Employee Compare To Twitter Compare To Twitter Twitter Employees: 2,000 Gross Revenue: $158,500 ($40,000) $317 million Google Employees: 44,777 $1,120,553 Gross Revenue: $239,788 $50.1 billion Facebook Employees: 5,299 $6,039 Gross Revenue: $960,370 $5.1 billion Yahoo Employees: 11,500 Gross Revenue: $433,614 $343,085 $5 billion Zynga Employees: 2,900 Gross Revenue: $441,816 ($72,223) $1.3 billion LinkedIn Employees: 4,200 $231,502 $5,145 Gross Revenue: $972 million Groupon Employees: 11,471 Gross Revenue: $200,506 ($4,755) $2.3 billion By Lisa Mahapatra INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES Sources: Number of employees data from Yahoo Finance's company profiles; Gross revenues and net income numbers from 2012 SEC filings for each company