Indian born Parag Agrawal became the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter after Jack Dorsey, the former CEO and co-founder stepped down from the post he helmed for 16 years. Agrawal is an IIT Bombay and Stanford University alumnus and was the Chief Technology Officer of Twitter before becoming the CEO.
Earlier in the year, Twitter was also in the news for permanently blocking former United States President Donald Trump’s account stating that his posts were glorifying violence and went against the company’s rules. The social media giant banned several accounts belonging to Indians who were supporting the farmers protest.
Since December 2019, Agrawal has also been working on Project Bluesky, an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers to combat abusive and misleading information on Twitter.
Bluesky is seeking to introduce a new decentralised technology, the idea being that Twitter and others will become clients of Bluesky and rebuild their platforms on top of the standard, Dorsey has said previously.
Before joining Twitter, Agrawal worked at Microsoft Corp, Yahoo and AT&T Labs Inc. in their research units, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Agrawal has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, according to his profile on Twitter’s “about” page.
Credit : The Economic Times
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