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TWITTER ANNOUNCED ANOTHER major shakeup in an attempt to stop losses and get more people using the service.
Four of the company’s top executives have left the company as part of a major restructure organised by its CEO Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey announced the changes in a tweet, saying he wanted to “set the record straight now”.
Jack / TwitterWas really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: pic.twitter.com/PcpRyTzOlW
— jack (@jack) January 25, 2016
Those leaving are engineering head Alex Roetter, human resources head Skip Schipper, media head Katie Stanton, and product head Kevin Weil. Dorsey said that all of the departures were voluntary.
A fifth member, Vine’s head Jason Toff, is also leaving the company and returning to Google where he will work on developing its VR products.
As part of the change, the sections left vacant will now be managed by the company’s COO (Chief Operating Officer) Adam Bain and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Adam Messinger.
As part of the change, The New York Times says it plans to appoint new board members and a “high-profile media personality” as one of its new directors.
It’s the latest change as Dorsey continues a company-wide overhaul which started late last year. Back in October, it announced that 8% or 336 employees from its global staff would be laid off.
At the time, Dorsey said the restructure was to “help put our company on a stronger path” and the company would improve with “a more purpose-built team, which will continue to build strength over time.”
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Skip Schipper…
Can we just pause for a moment to laugh at that?
Says a lot about the state of the platform when the CEO has to get around his own 140 character limit by posting an image of a statement (~1800 characters).
NOTHING to do with the platform, Twitter have the capability (and have tried) to remove the char limitation but the community do not want this. Consumers have the attentions span of a text message – Fact. (53 chars left)
Twitter Adverts are a complete rip off for anyone looking to promote their work. Any wonder why the company is starting to flop when charging people €0.50 a follow or €0.60 to promote a tweet.
#LOOKATMELOOKATMELOOKATMEORMYDINNER
Didn’t realise red thumbs meant trolling. I just thought they meant someone disagreed with you!!
Trevor I don’t give a continental fukk what was trending on twitter this weekend, if it was #knickers you would not have posted it, hence I can only conclude you were trolling and furthermore so do most of the people who gave you red thumbs 71 vs 21 green!
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