Can the Google Guy Fix Twitter?

Costolo, who co-founded RSS service Feedburner and sold it to Google for $100 million a couple of years ago, left the search giant’s employ in July.

Says Arrington:

We’d heard he was looking to start a new company, but obviously Twitter swooped in and grabbed him.

One can surmise it was Costolo’s experience dealing with Google’s huge infrastructure that made him attractive to Twitter, which has had numerous performance problems in recent months as the microblogging service has grown increasingly popular.