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Elon Musk Announces He Has Hired New Twitter CEO
Here's immoderate viral quality for you: Elon Musk is nary longer CEO of Twitter.
The SpaceX founder, who officially took over the societal media level backmost successful October successful a $44 cardinal deal, has announced that advertisement exec Linda Yaccarino volition present beryllium astatine the helm of the company.
"@LindaYacc volition absorption chiefly connected concern operations, portion I absorption connected merchandise plan & caller technology," helium tweeted May 12. "Looking guardant to moving with Linda to alteration this level into X, the everything app."
A time earlier helium unveiled Yaccarino arsenic Twitter's CEO—she antecedently served arsenic NBCUniversal's Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships—Musk teased the announcement successful a connection to his followers.
"She volition beryllium starting successful ~6 weeks!" helium wrote May 11. "My relation volition modulation to being exec seat & CTO, overseeing product, bundle & sysops."
Yaccarino had a small much than 280 characters to accidental astir her caller chapter, too.
"It has been an implicit grant to beryllium portion of Comcast NBCUniversal and pb the astir unthinkable team," she said successful a May 12 connection arsenic she exited the company. "We've transformed our institution and the full industry—and I americium truthful arrogant of what we've accomplished together, and grateful to my colleagues and mentors, particularly Brian Roberts, Mike Cavanagh and the full NBCU enactment team."
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Following Yaccarino's departure, NBC has named Mark Marshall as her interim replacement.
Twitter's staffing update comes 5 months aft Musk posted a canvass connected the platform, asking his followers connected Dec. 18, "Should I measurement down arsenic caput of Twitter? I volition abide by the results of this poll."
The results? 57.5 percent voted Yes, portion 42.5 percent voted No.
Given the outcome, Musk wrote successful a follow-up tweet, "I volition resign arsenic CEO arsenic soon arsenic I find idiosyncratic foolish capable to instrumentality the job! After that, I volition conscionable tally the bundle & servers teams."
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