X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year
Nikita Bier says he’s stepping down to become “a poster,” 13 months after taking over the service formerly known as Twitter.
Nikita Bier says he’s stepping down to become “a poster,” 13 months after taking over the service formerly known as Twitter.
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X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor,
“it’s time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster.” He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his
He says that “almost every aspect of X” has been rebuilt while he was head of product, including its timeline, Android app, chat, and notifications. Going forward, the “next leaders” mentioned are
and login requirements for access to features, and last month Bier said that missing data from the X algorithm had made the platform feel like a “battleground.”
Bier previously co-founded the startups tbh (acquired by Meta) and Gas (acquired by Discord). He was appointed to lead product just days before former X CEO Linda Yaccarino
, and has been a public face of the company ever since.
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