Twitter dominated by White and Asian male workforce

Twitter Inc., the social media website that limits your rants to 140 characters, recently released its workforce diversity numbers that shows the firm has a large number of Asian and White males working in the company.

In the latest report it was found that 70 percent of Twitter's workforce is male and in the U.S., about 90 percent of the employees are White or Asian.

Only 10 percent of its technology workforce is female and just 21 percent women have leadership roles in the organization.

The ethnic imbalance was also quite prevalent in the report.

"We are keenly aware that Twitter is part of an industry that is marked by dramatic imbalances in diversity - and we are no exception," Janet Van Huysse, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion at Twitter wrote in the report.

"By becoming more transparent with our employee data, open in dialogue throughout the company and rigorous in our recruiting, hiring and promotion practices, we are making diversity an important business issue for ourselves."

Indeed, a large number of Silicon Valley companies and tech giants like Facebook, Google and LinkedIn have a huge gender and racial imbalance in its workforce.  More recently, Pinterest also reported that most of its employees are either White or Asian and males.

"The [tech] environment is not particularly friendly to minorities. The industry is not doing a very good job at retaining diversity," Tracy Chou, software engineer at Pinterest told the Los Angeles Times.

However, Tim Worstall of Forbes notes that the problem is not in the industry but In the system.

"There are indeed very real problems with both gender and ethnicity in various workforces right across the nation. Those should indeed be addressed: most notably in the education system," he writes.