Guide to Internships at Twitter
Tweet
Company Description
Twitter is an online news and social networking service.
General
- Industry: Social Networking
- Founded: 2006
- Type: Publicly Traded
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Company Size: 2,000+ Employees
How to get an interview?
- Apply Online
- Career Fairs: University of California Berkeley, University of Washington Seattle, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Employee Referral
Internship Overview
- Application Opening: September
- Internship Locations: San Francisco CA
- Internship Length: 12 weeks
Previous Intern Experiences
Software Engineering Intern
- API and Rails to fetch tweets and display data in an easy to read web application
- Displays users’ favorite word choice and tweet preference by filtering each tweet and tracking word usage
- Analyzes user activity uses D3 to display it in a visually appealing manner via chart and graph
- Incorporates Rails database to allow for linear time lookup and storage in a convenient search history page
- Highlights users’ most tweeted from locations with an interactive map using the Google Maps API
- Trends Team: Built geographic visualization of twitter data based on word sentiment using Python
- Data and uses sentiment analysis to generate people’s opinions of certain things