Those include misinformation, abuse and effects on mental health.Īgrawal got a fast introduction to life as CEO of a high-profile company that’s one of the central platforms for political speech online. NBC News youth and internet culture reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt explains.Īs CEO, Agrawal have to step beyond the technical details and deal with the social and political issues Twitter and social media are struggling with. The social media company says this could cut down on 'mean' replies on the site. 'Want to review this before tweeting?' a new prompt to Twitter users will ask. It has just over 200 million daily active users, a common industry metric.

While Twitter has high-profile users like politicians and celebrities and is a favorite of journalists, its user base lags far behind old rivals like Facebook and YouTube and newer ones like TikTok. He studied at Stanford and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

At Twitter, he’s worked on machine learning, revenue and consumer engineering and helping with audience growth. At the end of last year, the company had a workforce of 5,500.Īgrawal previously worked at Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T in research roles. He joined San Francisco-based Twitter in 2011, when it had just 1,000 employees, and has been its chief technical officer since 2017.

had pressured Dorsey to step down.Įlliott released a statement Monday saying Agrawal and new board chairman Bret Taylor were the “right leaders for Twitter at this pivotal moment for the company.” Taylor is president and chief operating officer of the business software company Salesforce.Īgrawal, whose name is pronounced (PUH-rag AH-gur-wahl), joins a growing cadre of Indian-American CEOs of large tech companies, including Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and IBM's Arvind Krishna. Twitter Rolls Out Redesigned Misinformation Warning LabelsĪgrawal is a ”‘safe’ pick who should be looked upon as favorably by investors,” wrote CFRA Research analyst Angelo Zino, who noted that Twitter shareholder Elliott Management Corp.

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