New Delhi: Elon Musk on Friday confirmed that Linda Yaccarino, NBC Universal`s Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships, will take over as the brand new CEO of Twitter, making “it the everything app”.

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! She will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design and new technology,” Musk posted in a recent tweet. “Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,” he added.

Musk`s function will transition to being government chair and CTO, “overseeing product, software and system operations”. Yaccarino oversees about 2,000 employees in her function, much like the present power of Twitter employees after huge sacking by Musk following his $44 billion takeover late final 12 months.

Her crew oversees the monetisation technique for Peacock, the NBC Universal`s streaming service. Yaccarino`s crew has additionally generated greater than $100 billion in advert gross sales and entered partnerships with corporations, together with Apple, Snapchat, BuzzFeed, Twitter and YouTube, in keeping with her bio. In a Twitter ballot final 12 months, Musk had requested his hundreds of thousands of followers: “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”

“I will abide by the results of this poll,” he had posted. The ballot amassed greater than 17 million votes, with 57.5 per cent of the respondents calling for him to step apart. However, Musk didn’t step down.