Indian-born Krishnan joins Twitter as Senior Director

San Francisco Sep 19 (IANS) Micro-blogging website Twitter has hired Indian-born Sriram Krishnan a former top executive from Facebook and Snap as its Senior Director of Product.

"I m going to be joining Twitter and become a part of #theflock to work with the fantastic product team there " Krishnan tweeted.

A well-known product executive around Silicon Valley Krishnan has primarily focused on ad technology.

"So so so so so so excited to have you Sriram! Welcome home " tweeted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey late on Monday.

"At Facebook he helped build the company s ad network Audience Network; at Snap he helped build out the company s ads API " Recode reported on Tuesday.

Starting October 2 he will be responsible for core features inside the main app including timeline direct messaging and search.

Krishnan will report to Keith Coleman Twitter s Vice President of Product.

Krishnan left Facebook in February 2016 to help lead advertising efforts at Snapchat s parent company Snap. He quit Snap in February.

At Facebook he led "Facebook Audience Network" to take on Google.

--IANS
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