Behnam Rezaei, Twitter’s head of product and engineering, has resigned.

According to Platformer journalist Zoe Schiffer, Rezaie was one of the “last remaining heads” from before Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform.

Rezaei joins Yoel Roth, the head of safety and integrity, chief information security officer Lea Kissner, and chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, all of whom announced their departure shortly after Musk took charge.

“Yesterday was my last day at Twitter. It has been an absolute honour working with so many amazing people in the last 5.5 years,” Rezaei said in a tweet.

Musk tried to back out of the deal to buy the social media platform in July, but the $44 billion takeover deal was concluded in October.

At the time, the entrepreneur’s legal representatives said that Musk was terminating the merger agreement because Twitter was in material breach of multiple provisions of the deal, including "false and misleading" representations which he relied upon when agreeing to the takeover.

Since the takeover, many advertisers have cut ties with Twitter due to Musk’s apparent willingness to allow hate speech to proliferate on the platform, having reinstated accounts of controversial figures including Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and influencer Andrew Tate, who were previously banned for transphobic and misogynistic remarks.

The tumult led to Musk telling employees that Twitter “could go bankrupt”.

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