Twitter Hires Fired Facebook Exec

Twitter and Facebook are often spoken in the same breath by people giving a cursory nod to social networks, and now there is another reason why you might mention them together: Twitter has just hired a former Facebook exec, who was fired for trading stocks on the secondary markets.

All Things D reports that Michael Brown (@mikeisbrown) has made the jump from Facebook to Twitter after being dismissed from the former for buying its stock on the secondary market – what some might call insider trading.

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