Elon Musk tweets, Linda Yaccarino to be new CEO of Twitter

Twitter boss Elon Musk on Friday announced Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of the micro-blogging social media platform. Taking to Twitter, Musk wrote, "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."

Earlier in the day, Musk tweeted, "Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in approx 6 weeks! My role will transition to being executive chair and CTO, overseeing product, software, and sysops."