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Twitter appoints Parag Agrawal as CTO

Microblogging platform Twitter has appointed Parag Agrawal as its chief technology officer, according to an update on the company's website.

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Microblogging platform Twitter has appointed Parag Agrawal as its chief technology officer, according to an update on the company's website.
 

Agrawal, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, succeeds Adam Messinger.
 

Messinger had left the organisation in late 2016.

As the CTO, Agrawal is "leading technical strategy for the company and overseeing machine learning and AI across our product and infrastructure teams", as per information available on Twitter's website.
 

Agrawal had joined Twitter in 2011 as an Ads Engineer and has since then led efforts on scaling Ads systems, as well as creating and deploying a platform for online machine learning.

Prior to joining Twitter, he did research in large-scale data management with collaborators at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and AT&T Labs.

Emails sent to Twitter did not elicit a response. 

Recently, amid increasing trolls and abuse on social media, popular micro-blogging site Twitter issued a proposal seeking suggestions from its users on improving the health of content posted online. 

In a proposal issued to improve health metrics, Twitter said it aims to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, and to hold itself publicly accountable towards progress. 

"By measuring our contribution to the overall health of the public conversation, we believe we can more holistically approach and measure our impact on the world for years to come. Twitter's health will be built and measured by how we help encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking; conversely, abuse, spam and manipulation will detract from it. We are looking to partner with outside experts to help us identify how we measure the health of Twitter, keep us accountable to share our progress with the world and establish a way forward for the long-term," a company blog post read.

(With inputs from agencies)

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