Facebook's former chief tech**logy ******r is joining Twitter's board
 

Facebook's former chief tech**logy ******r is joining Twitter's board
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Twitter's newest board member once belonged to the C-suite of its much bigger competitor.

The social network an**unced Tuesday that Bret Taylor, former Facebook chief tech**logy ******r and CEO of productivity software startup Quip, will join its board of directors as its ninth member.*

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Taylor, who is also credited with co-creating Google Maps before joining Facebook, offers a product and engineering k**w-how the board largely lacks at the moment.

"Bret brings to our Board a great mind for consumer products and tech**logies that will be invaluable to the company as we execute our plans for 2016 and beyond," said Twitter's executive chairman, Omid Kordestani, in a press release statement. Read more...


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