Raheel Khursheed moves on from Twitter India

Kashmiri Journalist turned online activist Raheel Khursheed has decided to move on from his role of Head - News Partnership, Twitter India & South east Asia.

After serving the micro-blogging site for over four and a half years, Khursheed announced of his decision to quit Twitter in a tweet itself. He has also revealed his next destination and the areas that he will be exploring ahead in a series of tweets.

Personal Update: Today is my last day at @Twitter after more than 4 and a half years of working for this amazing product - first building out News/Govt/Politics/CivicTech verticals @TwitterIndia & then leading News across Twitter SEA. It has been a fun, fulfilling ride. 1/n

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) July 10, 2018

For now, I am headed to @StanfordCDDRL as a Draper Hills Summer Fellow, looking at scaling the Civic/Gov Tech & Emergency Response work I've had the opportunity of developing @ Twitter. I'm excited abt meeting an inspiring cohort of Democracy leaders from across the world 2/n

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) July 10, 2018

Over the course of the next few months, I will be exploring my interests across the intersection of consumer internet products, social impact and active citizenship, & food! 3/n

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) July 10, 2018

For the many many partners across News/Govt/Politics/CivicTech across India & South East Asia who have helped me make this stint a meaningful one, I am grateful. I leave with the knowledge that you are well taken care of. Team @Twitter is on top of it. 4/n

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) July 10, 2018

Gratitude to the original crew, the Old Fashioneds' - @rsjaitly @RaoPratiksha @aneeshmadani @keyamadhvani & @ViralRJani for making @Twitter one of the most high impact, fun workplaces ever! No matter where we wind up, we will always be chasing #Legacy. 5/n

— Raheel Khursheed (@Raheelk) July 10, 2018

In his goodbye words to Twitter, Khursheed said, “It has been a transformative four and a half years for me at this company, working on/for a product that I have loved for more than a decade! I look forward to all the exciting places Team @Twitter is taking the product to. Twitter is & will continue to be an incredibly important player shaping the global public sphere & our engagement with it and I will remain an ardent fan, cheering team @Twitter from the sidelines.”

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At Twitter Khursheed led the conception, development & roll out of award winning civic tech products - Twitter Seva, Twitter Samvad, SmartFeed - that democratise information, help governments do their job with accountability & transparency & enable meaningful citizen engagement at scale. His innovative product and partnerships work - from Twitter SMS alerts to live data on national television - has dramatically altered how elections/politics are narrated in India.