Mike Abbott, Palm’s high profile SVP departure from last Friday, resigned from Palm Inc. for a new position at Twitter according to a new report. TechCrunch writes that the former webOS chief will become the next vice president of engineering at Twitter.
Mr. Abbott joined Palm in 2008 and lead the team that developed webOS. Before joining Palm, Michael was the general manager of .NET Online Services at Microsoft. His executive bio is still live at palm.com and his last day of work in Sunnyvale is this Friday.