{"id":17937,"date":"2017-09-23T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=17937"},"modified":"2017-09-29T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:20:32","slug":"from-facebook-snap-now-to-twitter-sriram-krishnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/from-facebook-snap-now-to-twitter-sriram-krishnan\/","title":{"rendered":"From Facebook, Snap, Now to Twitter: Sriram Krishnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(L-r) Matt Turck, Spencer Lazar, Sriram Krishnan and Mar Hershenson speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017, at Pier 36, May 15, in New York City. (Noam Galai\/Getty Images for TechCrunch)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sriram Krishnan, a former top executive from Facebook and Snap, has been hired by Twitter as its senior director of product.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Krishnan will be joining Twitter from Oct. 2 where he will be responsible for a lot of the core features inside the main app, internally referred to as \u201cBluebird,\u201d including timeline, direct messaging and search, technology news website Recode reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be joining Twitter and become a part of #theflock to work with the fantastic product team there,\u201d Krishnan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>A well-known product executive around Silicon Valley, Krishnan has primarily focused on ad technology. Now he is taking on a consumer product role, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo&#8230; excited to have you Sriram! Welcome home,\u201d tweeted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey late night, Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan left Facebook in February 2016 to help lead advertising efforts at Snapchat\u2019s parent company Snap. He quit Snap in February.<\/p>\n<p>At Facebook, he led \u201cFacebook Audience Network\u201d to take on Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(L-r) Matt Turck, Spencer Lazar, Sriram Krishnan and Mar Hershenson speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017, at Pier 36, May 15, in New York City. (Noam Galai\/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Sriram Krishnan, a former top executive from Facebook and Snap, has been hired by Twitter as its senior director of product. Krishnan will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/from-facebook-snap-now-to-twitter-sriram-krishnan\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,275],"tags":[373,682,610,124,82,106,147,2926,4005,137,4006],"class_list":["post-17937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-tech","category-community","tag-twitter","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-business","tag-community","tag-indian-american","tag-siliconeer","tag-snap","tag-sriram-krishnan","tag-tech","tag-the-flock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}