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

Nevertheless, the billionaire didn’t reveal who could be taking the reins of the embattled social media firm and has made bulletins previously that he didn’t comply with by means of on.

Late Thursday night, the Wall Avenue Journal reported that Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s head of promoting, is in talks to take up the position, in accordance with folks accustomed to the state of affairs.

Yaccarino has been an business 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 searching for remark.

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

Musk, whose tenure as chief govt has been marked with controversy, had instructed a Delaware court docket in November he anticipated to cut 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 prime 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 particular person workforce.

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

Massive advertisers have deserted the platform on account of considerations about hate speech and poor content material moderation.

Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has stated he took over Twitter to forestall 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 data working rampant on the platform and few folks signing up for the service the modifications have 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 have been to get a brand new CEO, the transfer might allay considerations of traders at Tesla who’ve been more and more fearful in regards to 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.