Twitter明星员工大撤退

    为何众人纷纷离开Twitter？这款产品风头正劲——现在每月有2.5亿条Twitter消息，而就在2010年9月才只有9,000万条。据Twitter首席执行官迪克•科斯特罗称，截至10月中旬，该公司市值约为80亿美元。一年之前，Twitter管理层经历大地震，创始人杰克•多西重返公司，担任产品开发主管，而科斯特罗则出任首席执行官。然而，震荡一年之后，仍不断有员工离去。

    离职的知名员工包括：

    ——通讯部主管肖恩•加勒特于上周（11月9日）宣布辞职。他刚加入Twitter时还是光杆司令，而等到离开时，Twitter通讯部门已经有8名雇员。

    ——工程部副总裁迈克•雅培于10月13日宣布将离开Twitter，作为入驻企业家加入风险投资公司基准投资（Benchmark Capital）。

    ——首席科学家阿卜杜拉•肖博瑞证实他将离开Twitter，转投旧金山一家名为Alta Vista School的独立小学。该校于9月中旬由肖博瑞和他人一同创立。肖博瑞在此前负责实现Twitter的搜索推荐。

    ——帕姆•克莱默在7月份被聘为Twitter首位负责消费者市场营销的副总裁，然而短短三个月后已经离职。

    ——最近离开的是iOS应用程序Tweetie的开发者罗兰•布瑞特。他发布Twitter消息称：“今天是我在Twitter的最后一天。我准备花些时间来想想下一步怎么走。对于我们团队的发展，我感到由衷的自豪。”

    ——该公司的两位初期风险投资人——风投机构USV的弗雷德•威尔逊和投资基金星火资本（Spark Capital）的毕贾•萨伯特——在9月中旬离开了董事会。

    当然，尚待解答的问题是，这些高层员工为什么离开？尽管该公司在飞速发展，但Twitter积重难返，杰西•亨普尔在《财富》杂志（Fortune）四月刊中列举的问题似乎仍然存在。

    译者：项航

    Why is everyone leaving Twitter? The product's growing more popular by the day -- it's now generating 250 million tweets, a jump from 90 million in September of 2010. As of mid-October, the company's value was some $8 billion, according to CEO Dick Costolo. And yet, a year after the management shakeup that put founder Jack Dorsey back into the chief product role and Costolo in the CEO spot, employees continue to leave.

    Consider this:

    -- Head of Communications, Sean Garrett announced his resignation last week, November 9th. When he arrived, the Twitter communications department went from zero people to eight by the time he left.

    -- Mike Abbott, VP of Engineering, announced last month on October 13 that he would be leaving and moving to his a role as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.

    -- Chief Scientist, Abdur Chowbury, who was responsible for implementing Twitter's search recommendations, confirmed that he would be leaving to work on Alta Vista School, an independent San Francisco elementary school a co-founded in mid-September.

    -- Pam Kramer, who was hired in July as Twitter's first VP for consumer marketing left the company after just three months.

    -- One of the most recent departures is Loren Britcher's -- creator of iOS app Tweetie -- tweeted, "Today was my last day at Twitter. Taking some time to figure out what's next. Really proud of the way the team has grown."

    -- Two of the company's first vc investors Fred Wilson of USV and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital left the board in mid-September.

    The unanswered question is, of course, why are the top employees leaving? Despite rocket growth, the trouble @ Twitter chronicled by Jessi Hempel in Fortune's April issue seems to be ongoing.