Twitter has been censured by an activist for revealing that only 49 employees out of 2,910 staff members in America are black.
Multinational social media platform, Twitter has been slammed for having only 49 black employees out of 2,910 staff members in America.
The 35 men and 14 women account for just 1.7 % of the firm's US operation, which is 93.8% white or Asian. It represents a stark lack of progress since last year, when senior executives promised to boost their number of African American staff from 2 %.
Flaying the figures, released in a compulsory Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) report on Wednesday, 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," said.
The number of Hispanic employees also fails to reflect the proportion of Latino users, and of America's Latino population.
27% of black adults use the site, and 25 % of Latinos, compared to 21 % of white users, according to the Pew Research Center.
Rev Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition, who has long campaigned for tech companies to be more transparent about their lack of minority employees, told the Guardian that black people are “becoming intolerant” of Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies’ lack of progress in making their offices more diverse.