The Internet is abuzz today with news about the moving and shaking Twitter is doing in the New Year. The social networking platform has already added ten new staff members to their list, with many of them coming from the short list of other Internet goliaths.
Among them is Bakari Brock, a former attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton who took on the role of Corporate Counsel for YouTube and Google beginning in September 2007. Brock is now a member of the Twitter team and prepared to lend his finesse in negotiation and drafting of multimedia and software licensing and content copyright to the company.
The decision to hire Brock, along with other Google affiliated attorney Anthony Wang, would seem to represent a move by Twitter toward reshaping its content distribution policies. Twitter is likely searching for the most profitable avenue for distribution and would need to help of the world’s best lawyers to fully recognize and enact its best options.
The two lawyers; however, were just among the team members Twitter plucked from the web’s key players. Paul Soals of Bebo and Apple’s IT teams along with Florian Leibert, a former engineer at Ning, Jinen Kamdar, a group product manager at Ning and Edward Ceasar a developer at Tivo. Additionally, Twitter has added several software engineers to its team including, Dmitriy Ryaboy of Cloudera and Ask.com, John Sirois of VMware, and Jane Huang of 23andMe. Josh Elman of Facebook and Utkarsh of Yahoo also made the team, with Twitter’s non-freelance work force now reaching 156.
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