Instagram Hires Twitter’s Former Product Head Kevin Weil

Former Twitter product head Kevin Weil has reportedly landed at one of the microblogging website’s primary opponents, fb’s Instagram, studies Re/code. Weil was one of the crucial executives who left Twitter in a major shake-up at the company over the weekend. At Instagram, Weil will take the identical place he held at Twitter, heading up the product crew.

in keeping with more than one sources who spoke to Re/code, Weil had been recruited via Instagram for months before announcing his departure from Twitter. This lends credence to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s commentary that, contrary to a couple of reports, Weil and the other pros who left the corporate weren’t fired. As Re/code notes, Weil’s departure from Twitter also occasions smartly with latest strikes at Instagram. prior this month Peter Deng, Instagram’s head of product, left for any other fb firm, Oculus, leaving the place that Weil is now taking.

Weil will document instantly to Instagram’s CEO Kevin Systrom, reviews Bloomberg. besides Weil, the opposite executives that left Twitter over the weekend embody the company’s head of media Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter’s senior vice chairman of engineering Alex Roetter, and the pinnacle of Vine, Jason Toff. it isn’t recognized where Jacobs Stanton and Roetter have landed, but Jason Toff has tweeted that he will be joining Google to work on its virtual reality tasks.