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 might 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 up to now that he didn’t observe 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 function, in response to folks accustomed to the scenario.

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 in search of remark.

Her exit can 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 lady within the firm, following a grievance that prompted an investigation.

Musk, whose tenure as chief govt has been marked with controversy, had informed a Delaware courtroom 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 shortly 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 reducing prices and reshaping the platform.

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

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

Massive advertisers have deserted the platform on account of issues 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 changing 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 operating rampant on the platform and few folks 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 might allay issues of traders 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 referred to 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.