Cybersecurity
China's Twitterati Rattled by Jack Dorsey's Pick for New Chief
- New executive tweets to official Chinese media accounts
- Kathy Chen hired as Twitter seeks to expand footprint
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Twitter Inc. announced a new top executive for China last week, but her tenure is off to a rocky start after her background and initial tweets unsettled users in the region.
Kathy Chen, Twitter’s first managing director for Greater China, is a software engineer who worked for the People’s Liberation Army before moving into the private sector, where she was employed by a cybersecurity firm and then at Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. Chen, who created a Twitter account last month, mentioned in her first tweets that she was looking forward to working with state broadcaster CCTV News and official state media Xinhua News Agency.