Billionaire and Owner of Twitter names Linda Yaccarino as New Twitter CEO

The owner of Twitter, Elon Musk today Friday 12 May, 2023 names Linda Yaccarino as the new Twitter CEO. Musk unveiled the identity of the new Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Linda Yaccarino today via his Twitter handle. 

As Linda Yaccarino becomes the new CEO of Twitter, Musk took to Twitter to welcome her. 

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter,”@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,” he said.

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Recall that Twitter users had in December 2022 voted to oust owner Musk as the CEO in an unscientific poll he organized  and promised to honor, just weeks after he took charge of the social media giant.

Yaccarino resigned today from NBCUniversal after working for over a decade. NBCU had earlier today 12 May, 2023 announced that Ms. Yaccarino was leaving the company, effective immediately.

Ms. Yaccarino had been NBCUniversal chairman of global advertising and partnership for more than a decade.

Recall that Yaccarino interviewed Elon Musk at the MMA Global POSSIBLE conference, discussing topics such as free speech and protection for advertisers on Twitter. Linda Yaccarino has been in talks with Elon Musk over the role of CEO at Twitter ever since the interview.