Twitter's Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger To Leave

(RTTNews) - Twitter's (TWTR) chief technology officer Adam Messinger announced in a tweet on Tuesday that he is leaving the company. "After 5 years I've decided to leave Twitter and take some time off," Messinger said.

"We're taking steps to streamline and flatten the organization by elevating our engineering, product and design functions, with each area now reporting directly to Jack," Twitter said in a statement. "We believe these updates to our organizational structure will enable increased discipline in our product strategy and faster execution."

Twitter said that it plans to "streamline and flatten the organization" by having its engineering, product and design function areas reporting directly to Jack Dorsey, the company's chief executive.

Josh McFarland, a vice president of product at Twitter, is also leaving the company, he announced today.