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Twitter Turnover Continues

For better or worse, the top-level turnover at Twitter continues. According to TechCrunch, Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury is out. "Chowdhury actually confirmed his exit yesterday on Twitter, but everyone seemed to miss it," it writes. Along with Greg Pass, Chowdhury joined Twitter in 2008 upon its acquisition of search engine Summize. Pass, if you don't recall, left his CTO position at Twitter in May.

"We're told that all of the original Summize team is now gone from Twitter," TechCrunch writes -- not to mention to recent exit of Biz Stone, "the firing of four key product guys, and the departure of a number of early Twitter employees," it adds. As Chief Scientist, Chowdhury led several significant data projects at Twitter, and is credited with playing a key role in the implementation of Twitter Search and Recommendations.

Chowdhury is also a co-founder of the Alta Vista School in San Francisco, and at one point was the chief architect of search at AOL, Techcrunch notes.

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