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<\/a>Robin Sloan<\/a>, a former strategist and executive at Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media orga\u00adnizations that want to do cool, transformative things with tweets.”<\/p>\nHe was recruited by a former colleague Chloe Sladden<\/a>, who experimented with one of the earliest of uses of Twitter<\/a> against a live broadcast. During the first presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, Sloan built an application that would overlay curated tweets over the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n He didn’t give any specifics as to how he sees Twitter working with media organizations. Instead, he pointed to how quickly the company’s ecosystem has evolved.<\/p>\n He wrote on his blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n “I feel like I\u2019m constantly learning and re-\u200b\u200blearning how to use Twitter. And I think that\u2019s because, paired with this odd constraint, you\u2019ve got this crazy openness\u2014this refusal to specify exactly what you\u2019re supposed to do with the service, or how, or even why. So those determinations fall to us, and as a result, the whole thing seems to be convulsing and transforming, like, every six months.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sloan was auspiciously also the author of Twitter’s five billionth tweet.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n