Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk, stated on Thursday that he has discovered a brand new chief govt for the social media platform and that she shall be beginning in about six weeks.

“My function will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software program & sysops,” Musk stated in a tweet.

Nevertheless, the billionaire didn’t reveal who can be taking the reins of the embattled social media firm and has made bulletins prior to now that he didn’t observe by on.

Late Thursday night, the Wall Road Journal reported that Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s head of promoting, is in talks to take up the function, in keeping with individuals accustomed to the state of affairs.

Yaccarino has been an trade advocate for locating higher methods to measure the effectiveness of promoting and was key within the launch of NBC’s ad-supported Peacock streaming service. Yaccarino didn’t reply to calls in search of remark.

Her exit can be one other massive blow to NBCUniversal after Comcast stated final month that CEO Jeff Shell was leaving after acknowledging an inappropriate relationship with a lady within the firm, following a criticism that prompted an investigation.

Musk, whose tenure as chief govt has been marked with controversy, had informed a Delaware court docket in November he anticipated to scale back his time at Twitter and ultimately discover a new chief to run the social media firm.

In December, he tweeted: “I’ll resign as CEO as quickly as I discover somebody silly sufficient to take the job.”

Musk took over as CEO in October after he acquired the corporate for $44bn. He rapidly fired the corporate’s high executives, together with then CEO Parag Agrawal.

Since then, Twitter has been in a state of near-constant turmoil with Musk finishing up an aggressive and chaotic agenda intent on slicing prices and reshaping the platform.

Shortly after taking on, Musk reduce practically half of Twitter’s 7,500 individual workforce.

The corporate reinstated beforehand banned accounts, corresponding to these belonging to Donald Trump and the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.

Giant advertisers have deserted the platform attributable to considerations about hate speech and poor content material moderation.

Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has stated he took over Twitter to stop the platform from turning into an echo chamber for hate and division.

The corporate’s relaunch of its subscription service, Twitter Blue, was chaotic, with impersonation and false info operating rampant on the platform and few individuals signing up for the service the modifications had been meant to advertise.

In the meantime, Twitter’s former CEO has sued the corporate over authorized charges.

It was reported in March that the corporate is price lower than half of what Musk paid for it final fall. He stated final month that Twitter was “roughly breaking even”.

If Twitter had been to get a brand new CEO, the transfer may allay considerations of buyers at Tesla who’ve been more and more nervous concerning the time that Musk is devoting to turning round Twitter. Tesla shares jumped 2.4% in buying and selling quantity because the information broke.

“The boat anchor known as Twitter is loosened from Musk’s ankle. Now he can get again to spending extra time creating worth at Tesla,” stated Craig Irwin, analyst at Roth MKM.