Saturday, June 13, 2015

Dick Costolo has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter Inc

Dick Costolo has resigned as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Twitter Inc after leading the company for five years.

He will demit the office of CEO on 1 July 2015. Till his replacement
is found Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and Square Inc's CEO will
take over as the Interim CEO.

Under the technological leadership of Costolo, Twitter had evolved
from a startup to a public company. He was also had pioneered for
introducing Twitter's famous 140 character messaging service which had
gained cultural prominence and had become a powerful tool for
worldwide celebrities, activists and citizen journalists to propagate
their views.

Dick Costolo had joined the company in 2009 as its Chief Operating
Officer (CTO) and later in 2010 was appointed as its CEO. In 2013, he
had helped the company to go public and also had struggled to attract
new users to the service.

Twitter was founded in 2006. Presently has 302 million active users
and has a market value around 25 billion US dollars.

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