Elon Musk has discovered his substitute as CEO of Twitter

Elon Musk has introduced plans for a brand new Twitter CEO however hasn’t mentioned who it’s. In a tweet on Thursday, Musk says that he has “employed a brand new CEO for X/Twitter” and that “she can be beginning in ~6 weeks.” Musk will as a substitute assume the position of government chair and chief know-how officer, “overseeing product, software program & sysops” of Twitter.

Based on Dylan Byers of Puck News, the brand new CEO can be NBC Common promoting government Linda Yaccarino, citing two unnamed sources.

The Wall Street Journal reported afterward that she is “in talks” to take over as Twitter CEO and that an NBCU spokesperson mentioned Yaccarino is at the moment in “again to again rehearsals” for an upfront presentation to advertisers.

Twitter and NBCUniversal recently announced an expanded partnership for the service to amplify NBCU’s protection of the 2023 Olympic Video games, with Yaccarino tweeting to Musk that Twitter ought to deliver again Periscope. She additionally lately interviewed Musk in particular person, on the Doable 2023 advertising and marketing occasion in Miami.

Whereas Musk might quickly not be CEO, he nonetheless owns the corporate, which he has renamed “X.” It appears unlikely that giving another person one particular title will make Twitter any much less of a wild trip. Musk turned “Chief Twit” last October, when he closed his acquisition of the corporate, adopted by the speedy firing of large portions of its executive staff and thousands of other employees.

One other query is how Musk’s divided consideration has affected his different corporations (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Firm — did we miss any?) and the way it will have an effect on them sooner or later. In December, Tesla buyers were openly calling for Musk handy over management of Twitter because the automotive firm’s inventory value dropped to $101, only a third of its peak value over the past yr, at round $314. Now, Tesla has slashed prices on vehicles and is dealing with decrease margins in what some are calling an EV price war, because it faces extra competitors than ever earlier than.

As Musk has reshaped Twitter coverage, seemingly to match his personal whims, hypothesis has solely elevated about how lengthy his tenure would final — and the way huge of an impact it’s having on his other companies. The Musk period has additionally included modifications that upset Twitter’s relationships with customers, public security officers, and others.

Musk’s Twitter takeover even affected the platform’s promoting enterprise. A number of major advertisers paused spending on Twitter over considerations that Musk’s views on free speech might injury their fame, and the wave of fake verified accounts that appeared on the platform following the initial launch of Musk’s revamped Twitter Blue didn’t assist, both.

Musk finally rolled out a higher-priced Twitter Blue subscription, banished previous “legacy” verified checkmarks for customers with fewer than 1,000,000 followers, and ushered in a UI makeover the place users swipe between an algorithmically sorted, recommendations-based For You timeline and a chronological Following one. He additionally rolled out encrypted DMs for verified users only.

Musk previewed the CEO change with a December ballot asking followers if he ought to “step down as head of Twitter,” promising to abide by the needs of the gang (and sure bots).

The vote appeared after Musk applied a broadly criticized coverage change that seemingly banned sharing hyperlinks to different social community websites. Musk later clarified and then rolled back the rule, promising that there could be a vote for main coverage modifications going ahead — not the first time he promised selections at Twitter could be made by committee. A couple of minutes later, he tweeted the poll about stepping down, which obtained round 17.5 million responses, with 57.5 p.c indicating that he ought to not be CEO of Twitter.

The ballot was hardly the primary indication that Musk would finally discover another person to take over Twitter’s day-to-day operations. In November, whereas testifying in court docket about his compensation as Tesla’s CEO, he said, “I count on to scale back my time at Twitter and discover someone else to run Twitter over time,” which lined up with earlier studies that his position as CEO was pitched from the start as a temporary one.

Replace 7:55PM ET: Added studies that Linda Yaccarino is the incoming CEO of Twitter.