After nine years with Google Karen Wickre, the blog manager who helped start and manage Google blogs has flown the coup for a position at social network Twitter.

Google’s senior media liason for the Google blog platform was not only responsible for Google’s blogging efforts but also helped foreshadow her new position after personally overseeing the launch of Google’s Twitter presence.

On Tuesday Wickre said on her  personal blog that she was crossing over while explained her new role:

“I’ll be working closely with the marketing & comms teams (and probably a few others) in a new role: editorial director,” she writes. “As you might guess, it will involve a fair amount of wordsmithing as well as nurturing a consistent Twitter voice across our public messages and information pages.” read more