San Francisco (USA), Jan 25 (EFE) .- The internal revolution on Twitter, which began late last year with the appointment of Jack Dorsey as permanent CEO, he continues, with the announcement of the resignation of four senior executives.
“I am saddened to announce that Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton and Kevin Weil have chosen to leave the company,” he announced . Dorsey via his Twitter account
Roetter was the chief engineer; Schipper’s vice president of human resources; Stanton responsible media and responsible for product Weil.
“Alex and Kevin spent more than five years (on Twitter), grown our advertising products and our engineering teams, which went from almost zero income to more than 2,000 million dollars, “he said Dorsey.
The executive said that Stanton also spent more than five years to Twitter, helped create a global team and launch some of the first, and now between the largest, Twitter offices, like Japan, Britain and Ireland.
“Although the time has passed Skip (on Twitter) has been lower, he has also played a key role in the growth our human resources department and hiring globally, “said Dorsey.
Twitter heading called” voluntary “, prompting ironic comments from users on the network who rated this alleged voluntary departure of “tremendous coincidence”.
The newspaper The Wall Street Journal announced that Twitter announced two new members of its board this week.
Meanwhile, The New York Times indicated that a well-known person in the industry of the media will join the board of Twitter, but did not reveal any names.
The changes come amid led Dorsey campaign to win lost confidence of investors in the social network, whose shares hit a record low on Tuesday of last week, to drop to $ 16.69.
Wall Street is concerned about the failure of Twitter to significantly increase its user base, which many argue the unintuitive nature of the platform.
Twitter launched a new phase with the appointment of Dorsey as permanent CEO in October last year, the debut of his publishing project “Moments”, launching a video tool for advertisers and the promise of “great changes” in 2016.
Shortly after his election as permanent CEO Dorsey announced the appointment of Omid Kordestani, former chief business of Google, as new CEO of the Board of Twitter.
Kordestani said then that it was “intimidating” tweet and said part of his mission would be to make social network it was easier to use.
The appointment of Kordestani came a day after the company announced the dismissal of 8% of its global workforce as part of a restructuring plan.
Twitter has about 4,100 employees worldwide and cuts affecting 336 workers
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