Twitter has confirmed that seven year eBay veteran Mazen Rawashdeh will be replacing Nick Heyman as VP of Operations at the 400 person strong company. In true Twitter fashion, the move was announced in a tweet by Twitter VP of Engineering Michael Abbott.
At Ebay, Rawashdeh was responsible for the Ebay Marketplaces product and prior to that was Senior Director of Infrastructure and Engineering responsible for servers and data center operations. Prior to eBay Rawashdesh had held positions at Oracle, OPSWARE, and surprisingly enough the Sacremento Bee newspaper.
Twitter mentioned yesterday, on its fifth birthday, that it was hiring across engineering and operations, in a blog post by Abbott detailing its data center migration. It seems like Rawashdeh is the first of in a series of key hires, supporting the service in its continuing efforts to monetize and scale.
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 updates 140 characters long. Twitter “is a real-time information network that connects [users] to the latest stories, ideas, opinions, and news.” The service can be accessed through a variety of methods, including Twitter’s website; text messaging; instant messaging; and third-party desktop, mobile, and web applications. Twitter is currently available in...
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