NBCUniversal Ad Sales Chief Linda Yaccarino Could be Next Twitter CEO

NBCUniversal’s head of advertising sales, Linda Yaccarino, is in talks to be the CEO of Twitter.

Yaccarino interviewed Musk at an advertising event three weeks ago, and last week NBCUniversal announced a new content deal with Twitter that will see the social site hosting 2024 Paris Olympics content, including an exclusive live show.

Musk said earlier on Thursday that he hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!

Elon will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.

13 thoughts on “NBCUniversal Ad Sales Chief Linda Yaccarino Could be Next Twitter CEO”

  1. Why don’t you go count your 260 genders and talk to your women with penises friends and laeve us alone?

  2. Why don’t you go count your 260 genders and talk to your women with penises friends and leave us alone?

  3. Masterful move Elon. This woman as CEO will let many fence sitting advertisers come back into the fold. This should increase twitter’s profitability substantially.

    If she does not work out, as in starts censoring based on corporate narratives, she is easily replaceable.

  4. Twitter needs advertisers more than anything else. She is the person who will be getting them back. As for how censorious she is, well we will have to wait and see.

  5. NBC, check.
    “Knows the needs of advertisers”, check.

    This sounds like Musk has grown bored of trolling the hyper-woke extremist crowd and is giving Twitter back to them. Probably inevitable anyway.

    • Hyper woke? Kick the Fox News habit. It’s stunting your brain. This women is the scapegoat, for the impending spectacular failure of Twitter. I’m making popcorn as we speak.

      • So you are saying that pre-Musk, the norm with Twitter was a reasonable set of community guidelines, fairly applied in equal measure, with nothing worthy of concern revealed in the string of dumps known as the ‘Twitter files’?

        Because that wouldn’t seem like an accurate take on what we’ve seen, and if that’s not the case – and setting aside Twitter’s apparently poor financials under it’s old leadership – then there definitely was a problem with Twitter that needed/needs fixing, and a real societal good in fixing it.

        • Hmmm. No one asked Musk to become the self-appointed savior of Twitter, the Don Quixote-esq horseback knight trying to fell windmills. We don’t fix what was working, and making money.

          • Maybe, but what does that have to do with Twitter, which had been losing money hand over fist the two years before Musk took over? They only made money 2 years out of the previous decade, remember.

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