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Now Robin Sloan Is Leaving Twitter

By TechTaffy Desk

By Lisa Carlin

Robin Sloan from Twitter’s media partnership team is the latest member to join the high profile exodus club of Twitter senior management. Sloan says, “I am finally a FULL-TIME fiction writer & media inventor!”

Sloan follows in the recent heels of Sean Garett (communications head honcho), Pam Kramer (vice president, marketing), and Mike Abbott (vice president, engineering). Garett left just a couple of days ago, and he has reportedly not left for greener pastures, just left, though he was quick to praise the Twitter team on his tweets even as he was leaving.

Something is rotten in the State of Twitter?

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