Twitter Adds Former News Corp. President to Board
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Twitter Inc. said former News Corp. President Peter Chernin is joining its board, portending stronger ties between the microblogging site and the media and entertainment industries.
San Francisco-based Twitter confirmed the appointment in a posting on its microblogging service yesterday. Chernin, who had about 150 Twitter “followers” around the time of the announcement -- when he made his first Twitter posting -- had more than 930 today.