It seems these days that eight months in Twitter?s executive ranks makes one a grizzled veteran.
Kathy Chen, who joined the social network in April as managing director for China, became the latest exec to shuffle through the company?s revolving door.
Chen announced her departure via tweet, naturally:
1/12 Hi everyone, I have some updates to share with you about Twitter's Greater China business.
— Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

2/12 As you know, our focus in Great China is to help Chinese businesses to reach a global audience on our live communications platform.
— Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

3/12 Great China is one of our fastest growing revenue markets in Asia Pacific for Twitter today and we remain committed to this market. — Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

4/12 We have grown our Greater China advertiser base nearly 400% over the past 2 years and we thank all of them for their support.
— Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

5/12 We have fully transitioned our Chinese ad sales & support activities to our APAC HQ. All Chinese ad queries go to Alan Lan (@bluealan).
— Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

6/12 At this time, our HK office will stay open to maintain our Greater China presence & for business opportunities with Chinese companies.
— Kathy Chen (@kathychen2016) December 31, 2016

7/12 Now that the Twitter APAC team is working directly with Chinese ad...