Rumor: Twitter Hires Bing Search Scientist Alek Kotcz

It looks like Twitter has enticed yet another former Microsoft employee over to its team: Alek Kotcz, Principle Scientist at Microsoft’s Bing search engine appears to have left Bing for Twitter. Although this is still in rumor phase, there are several indications that Kotcz has joined the Twitter team, and we expect this to be made official in the coming days.

ReadWriteWeb reports that Kotcz appeared on Twitter’s list of employees sometime yesterday. However, he has not changed his LinkedIn profile, his webpage or other social media profiles to indicate that he’s joined Twitter.