Monday, January 25, 2016

Twitter, leaving four vice-chairmen. And a manager goes to rival Google – The Daily

Change of leadership for Twitter , struggling with problems related to the growth in the number of users and the crisis of the advertising . The CEO of the social based San Francisco , Jack Dorsey , has announced the resignation of four vice : the responsible development and design Kevin Weil , the head of engineering Alex Roetter , the human resources manager Brian Schipper and that of media relations Katie Jacobs Stanton . To this was added Jason Toff , head of the video-sharing service Vine property of Twitter, who tweeted his move to rival Google , which will deal with virtual reality.

Personal update! I’m joining Google to work on VR. So much exciting potential there.

– Jason Toff (jasontoff) January 25, 2016

Dorsey then did clarify the situation with a statement released via Twitter of course he responds to those who defines “press rumors inaccurate” and praises the four leaders saying he was “sad” to have to announce their departure. To perform the functions of the former four senior executives, said Dorsey in the tweet, will be the chief operating officer at the time, Adam Bain , and the head of the technology Adam Messinger . Dorsey, creator of Twitter information, has instead commented on the resignation of Toff from Vine, free application that lets you create and share videos on the web.

According to some rumors, Twitter may appoint two new directors d ‘ Directors week, while other changes in the top management may be announced in the coming hours. In one year, the listed security Wall Street has lost more than 50% of its value. The crisis also has an impact on employment: in recent months, were laid off 366 employees , 8% of the entire workforce. Twitter currently has just over 300,000,000 of users, but their growth in 2015 was the slowest of the story.

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