Jun 02, 2022 14:00:00

Twitter CEO Agrawal suspends new hires & carries out large-scale restructuring

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal , swayed by Elon Musk's announcement of the acquisition, is reported to be undergoing a major restructuring, including the dismissal of two internal directors. In addition, it is instructed to focus on increasing the number of users and personalization rather than developing functions such as space, community, newsletter, and it seems that the development of a tweet edit button is also underway.

Inside Twitter (TWTR), Shuffled Jobs and Elon Musk Tweets Dampen Morale --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/inside-twitter-shuffled-jobs-and-musk-tweets-dampen-morale

Twitter's reportedly shifting teams away from Spaces, newsletters, and communities --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23150290/twitter-product-features-audio-newsletter-communities-jay-sullivan

According to Bloomberg, the personnel affairs on Twitter are also heavily reinforced. CEO Agrawar has announced that he will suspend new hires, and has also fired Kaybon Bakepool, head of the consumer product team, and Bruce Falk, head of the business product team. Also, almost all members of Twitter's consumer product team have been transferred, and it seems that a major reorganization is underway.

A Twitter spokeswoman told Bloomberg, 'We will update the structure and roadmap of our consumer product team to focus on areas that have the greatest positive impact on public conversations.' Mr. Bakepool, who was dismissed, was a person who was pushing for a plan to implement a closed community function on Twitter, and in 2021 a voice conversation function 'Space' similar to Clubhouse was actually implemented on Twitter.

Anyone can finally create a 'space' where you can talk in real time on Twitter --GIGAZINE

However, the dismissal of Bakepool and others seems to have stopped the development of closed functions such as space and community, and at the time of writing the article, it is under the direction of Jay Sullivan, who was newly appointed as the head of the consumer product team. It seems that the 'edit button' is being developed below.

According to Bloomberg, the 'edit button' is a feature that allows users to edit the content of posted tweets within a certain period of time after sending the tweet, and will be released in the latter half of 2022. Along with the implementation of the edit button, it seems that the past history of edited tweets will also be displayed.

Regarding the edit button, Jane Manchun Wong, a researcher who is familiar with the development status of Twitter, tweeted that the editing of the tweet was tested, and development is proceeding for implementation within Twitter as well.