Late Sunday evening, Twitter announced a major disturbance in leadership. Four of the popular social media company’s top executives have decided to leave the company, just three short months after company co-founder, Jack Dorsey was named the chief executive.
Dorsey took to twitter to set the record straight:
Was 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
According to Dorsey, it was the decision of the four executives to leave: Alex Roetter, senior vice president of engineering; Brian “Skip” Schipper, vice president of human resources; Katie Stanton, vice president of global media; and Kevin Weil, senior vice president of product.
I’m forever grateful to @aroetter, @katies, @skipschipper & @kevinweil for everything they’ve given to Twitter. They are absolutely amazing!
— Jack (@jack) January 25, 2016
In addition to those four, Jason Toff, the general manager of Vine (a Twitter-owned social media application) announced that he is leaving for Google to work on virtual reality.
Personal update! I’m joining Google to work on VR. So much exciting potential there.
— Jason Toff (@jasontoff) January 25, 2016
It will be interesting to see how things pan out in the upcoming days. Twitter shares have fallen by more than 50% in the last year, with 8% of it’s global workforce having reportedly been cut as of October 2015.
