Outrage As Twitter Reveals Just 49 Of Its 3,000 US Employees Are Black
Twitter only has 49 black employees - out of 2,910 staff members in America.
The 35 men and 14 women account for just 1.7 per cent of the firm's US operation, which is 93.8 per cent white or Asian.
Slamming the figures, released in a compulsory Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) report, Rev Jesse Jackson said people are 'becoming intolerant' of the stilted progress.
'Black people are greater users of the product and capable of doing the jobs, but there has not been an adequate commitment to hire, train and maintain [black people],' the civil rights leader, who is spearheading calls for diversity in tech, told The Guardian.
The number of Hispanic employees also fails to reflect the proportion of Latino users, and of America's Latino population.
Twenty seven per cent of black adults use the site, and 25 per cent of Latinos, compared to 21 per cent of white users, according to the Pew Research Center.
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