Twitter appoints new head of product
The former CEO of Twitter's "Periscope" livestreaming service and the current general manager of video, Kayvon Beykpour has been appointed as the new head of product for the micro-blogging giant.
He replaces Ed Ho, the former Vice President (VP) of both product and engineering.
Internally, the executive shuffle was announced, Later, on Thursday , Recode reported it.
Beykpour would oversee product in his role and report to the CEO Jack Dorsey
"We're setting ourselves up for the future," says a company spokesperson
Mike Montano, who has been working at Twitter since 2011. He recently managed engineering for the product team, will take over engineering for the company. Since after a prolonged leave, Ho has left his dual role at the company.
The spokesperson states "Simplifying how we manage will help us make faster decisions and be more creative and inventive in what we build for the people and businesses who use Twitter,"
It could be possible since Beykpour has been appointed that the micro-blogging platform is looking forward to focus on building its video tools since videos were the new head's prior focus.
Beykpour is the 6th executive to run Twitter product.
