Micro-blogging website Twitter has hired Indian-born Sriram Krishnan as its Senior Director of Product.
- Sriran is a former top executive from Facebook and Snap
- Starting October 2, he will be responsible for core features inside the main app, including timeline, direct messaging and search.
- He will be reporting to Keith Coleman, Twitter's Vice President of Product.
- He left Facebook in February 2016 to help lead advertising efforts at Snapchat's parent company Snap. He quit Snap in February.
- He led "Facebook Audience Network" to take on Google.
About Twitter
- Twitter is an online news and microblogging site and application where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters.
- It is based in San Francisco, California, United States, and has more than 25 offices around the world
- It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year.
