Twitter is bringing former Google executive and Feedburner founder Dick Costolo onto the nest to serve as Chief Operating Officer. Costolo departed Team Google in July for an undisclosed opportunity. When he left Google, most mused the serial entrepreneur would launch his own venture but as TechCrunch Michael Arrington points out, that was before “Twitter swooped in and grabbed him.” 

The move is definitely a case of six degrees no longer separated. Union Square Ventures, a key investor in Twitter, also originally funded Feedburner before it was acquired by Google in 2007.  And Costolo himself was an early investor in Twitter.

TechCrunch's Arrington enumerates why Costolo was a good choice for Twitter: he “is someone who has actual experience building scalable infrastructures, which Twitter sorely need.” The snarky tech blogger wonders (and rightly so) if Costolo might help Twitter begin to roll out new features and resolve its recurring service travails. The microblogging service needs some help in both departments. To start, let's hope the king of RSS can save Twitter from its pesky little downtime problem.  Source: TechCrunch, more