Bengaluru: Twitter said it had appointed former Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor to its board, effective immediately.
"Bret brings to our Board a great mind for consumer products and technologies that will be invaluable to the company as we execute our plans for 2016 and beyond," Omid Kordestani, Twitter's executive chairman, was quoted as saying.
Since Jack Dorsey taking over as Twitter CEO, the company has hired several new board members like British internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, Pepsi CFO Hugh Johnston and BET CEO Debra Lee.
The 10-year-old Twitter is facing stalled user growth and growing competition for quite some time.
The micro-blogging site reported 305 million monthly active users for the fourth quarter, compared to 307 million in the third quarter that excluded SMS-only followers.
As many top-notch executives have quit the company in the recent past, Twitter is going through a major overhaul under Dorsey.
Taylor is currently the chief executive of startup Quip. Taylor became the CTO of Facebook after it acquired FriendFeed, the social network he co-founded in 2007.
Before that, he was a group product manager at Alphabet's Google, where he co-created Google Maps and started Google's Developer product group.
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