At a time when women are struggling for an equal place in Silicon Valley, Twitter has acknowledged that a “Twitter Frat House” party was not the best idea. 
 
 A team of Twitter employees in San Francisco hosted the happy-hour event for its staff this week, complete with beer pong, red plastic Solo cups and kegs. 
 
 As images of the company-funded, self-proclaimed “frat” party circulated on social media in messages highlighting the tech industry’s lack of diversity and a recent gender-discrimination lawsuit, Jim Prosser, a spokesman for Twitter, responded with a statement published in Fusion. 
 
 “This social event organized by one team was in poor taste at best, and not reflective of the culture we are building here at Twitter,” Mr. Prosser said. “We’ve had discussions internally with the organizing team, and they recognize that this theme was ill-chosen.” 

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 Welcome to the Twitter Frat House? 
 
 The social network apologized Wednesday after recently hosting a fraternity-themed party at its San Francisco headquarters. Photos of the party emerged on social media Tuesday night and included a picture tweeted by Global Tech Women, an online advocacy group. 
 
 The tweet shows a photo of a pyramid of red plastic cups, a keg, a table apparently set up for the game "beer pong" and a sign that reads "Twitter Frat House" in Greek-like lettering. "@Twitter is having a frat party for employees. #Lovewhereyouwork, #diversitymatters #brogrammers," the tweet said. 
 
 "This social event organized by one team was in poor taste at best, and not reflective of the culture we are building here at Twitter. We've had discussions internally with the organizing team, and they recognize that this theme was ill-chosen," Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser said in a statement Wednesday. Prosser declined to say when the party took place and which team threw it, but the website Fusion reports the party was for the company's revenue team. 
 
 The "ill-chosen" frat-themed party occurs at a time when terms like "brogrammer" have been flying around to describe a perceived frat boy-like sexism in some areas of tech. Diversity has become a major issue in technology, with Twitter and other companies pledging to make their male-dominated workforces more inclusive. Tech companies are on average about 70 percent male and white, according to the most recent self-reported statistics from Twitter, Apple, Facebook and Google. The Twitter party fallout also comes as the microblogging site is being sued for gender discrimination by an ex-employee. 
 
 Lawyers for Tina Huang, who worked at Twitter as a software engineer from 2009 to 2014, filed the suit in March. It accuses the company of using a "subjective, secretive promotion process" that favors men. Huang's suit claims there were at least 50 other women who were similarly affected by Twitter's policies. 
 
 Also in March, ex-Facebook staffer Chia Hong filed a lawsuit against her former employer, saying Facebook fired her after she complained about being discriminated against and harassed because of her gender and Taiwanese descent. Hong worked at Facebook from 2010 to 2013. 
 
 Both Twitter and Facebook have denied the allegations in their respective lawsuits. 
 
 Those suits also came during the same month Ellen Pao lost her high-profile gender discrimination suit against storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. A San Francisco jury rejected Pao's claim of discrimination and retaliation over her 2012 firing from the firm. 
 
 Pao, who joined the community-curated news site Reddit a year later, resigned as its interim CEO on July 10. 

 In recent years, referring to a tech company's culture as "fratty" has become easy shorthand to describe Silicon Valley's gender disparities, and bemoan the male-dominated culture that results. 
 
 On Tuesday, Twitter made the metaphor literal, hosting a frat-themed party for one team's internal happy hour in San Francisco. 
 
 The gathering included details like a Twitter-branded beer pong set-up, a keg and a sign in faux-Greek lettering that read "Twitter Frat House." 
 
 Jim Prosser, a spokesperson for Twitter, confirmed that the company-funded frat party had taken place, and issued an apology. 
 
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 "This social event organized by one team was in poor taste at best, and not reflective of the culture we are building here at Twitter," Prosser said. "We've had discussions internally with the organizing team, and they recognize that this theme was ill-chosen." 
 
 A photo of the party first popped up Tuesday evening on Twitter and was quickly deleted by the female Twitter employee who posted it, but the photo had already been posted to the Global Women in Tech Facebook group. A source familiar with the matter said that the party was for Twitter's revenue team. 
 
 Twitter is in the midst of a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by Tina Huang, a female software engineer who claims that the company's promotion process unfairly favors men and is seeking a class action certification. Internal employee diversity numbers that Twitter released last year showed that only 10 percent of the company's tech employees were women. Overall, women made up 30 percent of employees and 21 percent of those in leadership positions. Huang's lawsuit alleged that the situation at Twitter is even worse, with every top level principal and senior staff engineer position during her tenure filled by a man. 
 
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 Holding a frat-themed event at any tech company would be in poor taste, but at Twitter, it's an especially bad look. 
 
 
 
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– Ahh, hindsight. While in the midst of a gender-discrimination lawsuit, some Twitter employees decided it was a good idea to throw a frat party. The now-controversial event took place on Tuesday, with Fusion hearing from a source that it was thrown for the company's revenue team in San Francisco. A female Twitter employee allegedly posted a photo of the party to Twitter, and that image was picked up by Global Tech Women, which tweeted it with the following caption: "Silicon Valley US: @Twitter is having a #Frat party for employees. #Lovewhereyouwork #diversitymatters #brogrammers." The image shows a keg, pizza boxes, a beer pong set-up, a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon, and a sign reading "Twitter Frat House" in Greek-style letters. The tech giant was in March hit by a suit from former software engineer Tina Huang, who claims that Twitter's promotion process is secretive and discriminatory toward women, reports the New York Times. CNET adds that the Huang alleges she was one of at least 50 women affected, and the suit seeks class-action status. A rep for the 70%-male company has apologized. "This social event organized by one team was in poor taste at best, and not reflective of the culture we are building here at Twitter," Jim Prosser told Fusion. "We've had discussions internally with the organizing team, and they recognize that this theme was ill-chosen."