Twitter has made another key hire today: former Google vet and White House and State Department staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton. According to Stanton’s Tweet stream, she will be leaving her role at the State Department for greener pastures at Twitter. She will be based out of the company’s California office.
At first I thought Stanton would be taking on Twitter’s newly announced role of government liaison, but according to Stanton, she’ll be working on international and business strategy. Stanton joined Google in 2003 and was the Product Manager of Google Finance. She was one of the first Googlers to join the Obama Administration, as the “Director of Citizen Participation,” in which she helped develop of online tools that help Americans get move involved with White House.
She then moved to the State Department early this year as the Special Adviser to the Office of Innovation, where she worked on projects related to Twitter. Stanton seems to have the perfect blend of government and technology experience, which makes this a big win for Twitter.
Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for...
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