<story><title>Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Advertising and product are not separate concerns. Advertising _is_ the business. If he doesn&amp;#x27;t take orders from her, the business will just get worse. His vision of &amp;quot;free speech&amp;quot; is in direct antagonism to the kind of brand-safe content that advertisers want.</text></item><item><author>DoesntMatter22</author><text>I think he&amp;#x27;s primarily hiring her for advertiser relations. She knows all the advertisers and can placate them.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile hell drive the company and she can be the face</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s only handing off the fiduciary duty. Basically he&amp;#x27;ll do what he wants with the platform and make someone else figure out how to make money with what he does.</text></item><item><author>atestu</author><text>WSJ yesterday for what it&amp;#x27;s worth: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-7a006bb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-tw...&lt;/a&gt; Good writeup&lt;p&gt;And to add to your comment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Mr. Musk, who has been CEO since buying the company in October, said his role will shift to executive chairman and chief technology officer. But Mr. Musk also made clear he wasn’t about to yield control over the platform, saying he would maintain responsibility for product, software and system operations.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>The FT got the scoop: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design &amp;amp; new technology.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Looks like he found somebody to have the CEO title, while he keeps deciding the product strategy. So still runs Twitter while saying he kept the promise from his Twitter poll...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoesntMatter22</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s not going to take orders from her. That&amp;#x27;s not her role. And him being a lightning rod of controversy is the only thing that hurt the company. They are grinding out features faster than ever, the got rid of a ton of staff but are moving faster than at any time in the past.&lt;p&gt;You, and others like you want to paint Twitter as some huge failure because you dislike Musk, and that&amp;#x27;s fine, but in reality the biggest advertisers have come back and with her at the helm even more will.&lt;p&gt;First of all, if you want to see some real crazy racist stuff go on LinkedIn or Facebook. People there are even worse than Twitter.&lt;p&gt;All advertising companies took a hit, and Twitter is actually almost profitable at this point, so if she improves things it WILL be profitable. As soon as he can start paying down that 12 billion loan things will get even better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Advertising and product are not separate concerns. Advertising _is_ the business. If he doesn&amp;#x27;t take orders from her, the business will just get worse. His vision of &amp;quot;free speech&amp;quot; is in direct antagonism to the kind of brand-safe content that advertisers want.</text></item><item><author>DoesntMatter22</author><text>I think he&amp;#x27;s primarily hiring her for advertiser relations. She knows all the advertisers and can placate them.&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile hell drive the company and she can be the face</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s only handing off the fiduciary duty. Basically he&amp;#x27;ll do what he wants with the platform and make someone else figure out how to make money with what he does.</text></item><item><author>atestu</author><text>WSJ yesterday for what it&amp;#x27;s worth: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-7a006bb5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-tw...&lt;/a&gt; Good writeup&lt;p&gt;And to add to your comment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Mr. Musk, who has been CEO since buying the company in October, said his role will shift to executive chairman and chief technology officer. But Mr. Musk also made clear he wasn’t about to yield control over the platform, saying he would maintain responsibility for product, software and system operations.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>The FT got the scoop: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design &amp;amp; new technology.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Looks like he found somebody to have the CEO title, while he keeps deciding the product strategy. So still runs Twitter while saying he kept the promise from his Twitter poll...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>What are the chances that he actually will listen to her and take her advice? I kind of think he&amp;#x27;s not accustomed to doing that.</text></comment>