As blogger Louis Gray spotted, the biggest new hire seems to be Bakari Brock, a lawyer at Google and YouTube for the past couple of years who specializes in “in-house commercial practice focuses on negotiation and drafting of music, video and software licenses; and counseling on copyright, ecommerce, and general policy issues,” as his LinkedIn profile describes.
His arrival could mean that Twitter was preparing some sort of move into content distribution, which would certainly justify the need for some in-house legal prowess, but this does seem a bit of a stretch for a company that has managed to maintain a rather focused interest. Twitter is about to provide a great service and a great API which third-parties can use to add any sort of embellishment they want. But, even if Twitter isn’t doing anything in the content field itself, a huge amount of content does pass through the service every day and maybe the company is just playing it safe.
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