Twitter?s update on its diversity efforts followed the same theme as counterparts Facebook and Pinterest: modest progress, along with the acknowledgement that more work needs to be done.
Vice president of inclusion and diversity Jeffrey Siminoff said in a blog post that the social network met or exceeded its goals for 2016, and it shared modest increases of those goals for 2017.
Whites made up 57 percent of Twitter?s total work force in 2016, with that figure climbing to 74 percent of the company?s leadership. Twitter?s technical employees were 52 percent white, while whites accounted for 62 percent of non-technical employees.
Twitter met its goals of boosting underrepresented minorities in its overall work force to 11 percent, to 6 percent in leadership and to 9 percent for technical employees, up from 10 percent, zero and 7 percent, respectively in 2015. The company?s goals for underrepresented minorities in 2017 are upticks to 13 percent of its overall work force, 8 percent of its leadership and 11 percent of its technical stable.
The social network exceeded its goals for women in 2016 in two of three categories, reaching 37 percent of its overall work force, 30 percent of leadership and 15 percent of technical workers, up from 34 percent, 22 percent and 13 percent, respectively.

For 2017, Twitter is eyeing upward moves for women to 38 percent of its total work force, 31 percent of its leadership and 17 percent of its technical work force.

Siminoff highlighted the...