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Kashmiri expert to head Twitter unit
Tribune News Service

Raheel Khursheed, in his early 30s, has joined Twitter India as the head of its “news, politics and government partnerships” unit. He reportedly joined the new office on Monday this week. Khursheed, who refused to talk saying he was not authorised to speak to media, has updated his LinkedIn profile saying he now heads the “News, politics & Govt. partnerships at Twitter India”.

“I provide front line technical support to news, government, political users of Twitter, managing, tracking and expanding Twitter’s relationship with journalists (and) editors and government officials and politicians; increasing the active usage of Twitter significantly among them,” Khursheed wrote on LinkedIn.

Twitter India, however, has not issued any official communique on its website handle so far. Khursheedhas been tasked to develop “best practices and new story formats, and drive adoption by news, government and political users”.