Twitter is finally getting the highly anticipated one new chief executive officer social media CEO of the platform, Elon Musk announced Thursday, without naming his replacement.
Excited to announce that I have new CEO for X / Twitter. will start in 6 weeks! ” in Tweet.
The Tesla billionaire told him role He will transition to CEO and President of Twitter technology officer.
the move It is likely to ease the concerns of Tesla investors, who They are increasingly concerned about the time Musk is devoting to transforming Twitter. musk also runs SpaceX rocket company.
Tesla shares jumped 2.4% in amount spike on the news.
musk , who He said in November was expected reduce His time on Twitter and finally finding a file new leader to run the social media The company, has not previously mentioned any potential candidates.
More than a month later, he tweeted in December: “I will be resigning from my position as CEO soon Because I find someone foolish enough to take the job.” The undertaking came next millions of Twitter users asked him step down in A Twitter poll created by the billionaire himself and he promises to stick to it.
In February, he told a conference that he expected to find a CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. As it’s called now, “Maybe in the end.” of this year. “
Billionair first Two weeks new Twitter owner in October was fast changes. He soon fired former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and others senior Leaders, then put off half its employees in November.
said Musk, who has been a self-proclaimed supporter of absolute freedom of speech took over Twitter to prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hate and division.
he also He said he would “beat” the spam bot on Twitter, A.; key area of his struggle with Twitter board over for him back And forth on Purchase of 54 billion dollars of company.
