New York: Micro-blogging site Twitter has added social media veteran Bret Taylor to its board of directors.
Bret Taylor was the former chief technology officer at Facebook and an ex-Google employee who helped build Google Maps. He also co-founded a social networking startup called Friendfeed, Re/Code reported on Wednesday.
The 10-year-old Twitter is facing slowed down user growth and also growing competition for quite some time, which has made it to take Taylor on board to regain footing in the social media landscape.
"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 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.
(With IANS Inputs)
