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Twitter promotes engineer Parag Agrawal to CTO

A screen displays the stock price of Twitter above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 31, 2017.
A screen displays the stock price of Twitter above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 31, 2017.
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(Reuters) — Twitter Inc appointed Parag Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer on Thursday, according to an update on the social media company’s website.

Parag Agrawal, who joined the microblogging site in 2011 as an Ads Engineer, succeeds Adam Messinger, who left in December 2016, the company said.

Agrawal earlier worked at Microsoft and AT&T prior to joining Twitter, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto resigned last month in a string of departures, to join online lender Social Finance (SoFi) as CEO.


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Twitter did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

(Reporting by Mekhla Raina in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)