![]() ![]() She noted the old Twitter has a “very well populated, much-loved influence council…where they had recurring access, or would have, recurring access, to you.” Under Musk, Twitter stopped convening its ad influence council, a quarterly meeting between Twitter and about three dozen top advertisers for discussing various business issues. Musk drew applause for that line, at which point another interviewer might have switched topics. She then asked if Musk should be held to a higher standard with his tweeting, noting, “a lot of people think you might be too provocative.” “So something that may be sarcastic or a joke or, something like that, may come across as serious when it isn’t.” He blamed the media for casting his tweets in the worst possible light because it competes with Twitter for ad dollars. Musk replied that the audience should take his tweets with a grain of salt, since it’s hard to convey tone with a tweet. “I have to push you a little,” Yaccarino told Musk, “because there’s a lot of folks in this room, they vote with their pocketbooks.” Some of them, faced with the “challenge” of Musk’s controversial “points of view” (he regularly tweets about politics and business) are still “holding back” and not advertising, she said, adding, “What do you say to them in this room?” Advertisers, fearing that their campaigns would appear near a proliferation of racism, conspiracies, and other objectionable content, had canceled or reduced their campaigns. Twitter’s main source of revenue has long been ads, but that tumbled after Musk-a self-described “free-speech absolutist”-bought the company. The audience was filled with marketing executives, many of whom had become leery of advertising on Twitter after Musk’s $44 billion takeover last year. After acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Musk, 51, had said he would eventually look for a new chief executive, telling a court: “I expect to reduce my time at Twitter and find somebody else to run Twitter over time.At several points during the interview of the “Twitter 2.0: From Conversations to Partnerships” keynote at the Possible conference in April, a less determined interviewer might have moved on to other topics, but Yaccarino kept pressing Musk. “I will abide by the results of this poll,” he had promised.įor months, there have been reports that the Tesla and SpaceX chief is actively looking for a replacement to serve as the chief executive of the company. ![]() He was responding to the results of his Twitter poll which asked users whether he should step down as the head of Twitter. In December, Musk said he will resign as Twitter CEO as soon as he finds “someone foolish enough to take the job”. Soon after that, he laid off nearly half of Twitter's workforce in sweeping changes that have alienated investors and antagonised employees. Musk fired Twitter’s Indian-origin chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and legal policy head Vijaya Gadde last October after his $44 billion takeover of the company. She starts in 6 weeks /uCx7xxXFxzĪnother user posted a funny clip of a dog sitting on the boss’s chair, deriving inspiration from Musk’s tweets in February when he jokingly said Floki, his Shiba Inu dog, is the “new CEO” of Twitter. “Elon Musk just announced he's stepping down as Twitter CEO and has found a very talented woman to replace him,” entrepreneur Rob Szczerba tweeted.Įlon Musk just announced he's stepping down as Twitter CEO and has found a very talented woman to replace him: /pRUmNrKdWPīREAKING: Elon Musk announces new Twitter ceo /LbV32yzTDBīREAKING: Elon Musk announces a new Twitter CEO. “Meet Elona, Twitter’s new CEO,” a user tweeted. Several memes featured morphed pictures of Musk with long hair. The news of the tech billionaire stepping down from the top job at Twitter became one of the biggest talking points on the internet and unleashed a flurry of memes. NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become Twitter’s chief executive officer, the Wall Street Journal reported. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks. Elon Musk said he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. ![]()
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