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Twitter Music chief departs
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 25 April 2013
The Twitter exec who spearheaded the development of the social networking firm’s music discovery app, which went live last week, has reportedly left the company.
According to AllThingsD, Kevin Thau, who also championed Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted, from which Twitter Music morphed, has left the firm to join Jelly Industries, the new company being led by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who himself departed the micro-blogging business last June.
Thau isn’t the first Twitter employee to follow Stone into Jelly, designer Vítor Lourenço having made the move earlier this year, while Ben Finkel – founder of social Q&A site Fluther, which was acquired by Twitter in 2010 – is a co-founder and CTO of the start-up.
The assumption now is that the former chiefs of We Are Hunted will lead Twitter’s musical ambitions from this point, and head up further development of the company’s potentially-ground-breaking though so far rather disappointing music app.
