san franciso elon musk on thursday said he has hired someone to replace him as boss of twitter and its newly named x corporation parenttwitter users in december voted to oust owner musk as chief executive in an unscientific poll he organized and promised to honor just weeks after he took charge of the social media giantexcited to announce that ive hired a new ceo for xtwitter musk said in a tweet without disclosing the name of his replacement but adding that she would start in the job in about six weeksread alsowho is linda yaccarino in talks to be new twitter ceoyaccarino joined nbcu in 2011 after 15 years at turner entertainment and has been credited with dragging the networks ad sales operation into the digital future since joining the company in 2011 she has revolutionized the 70 billion premium video ecosystemmy role will transition to being exec chair chief technology officer overseeing product software system operations the billionaire addedmusks running of twitter has been criticized as taking his attention away from his jobs heading tesla and spacexhowever he appears to be finally reading the room regarding this twitter nightmare and the impossible task of trying to balance running twitter tesla and spacex wedbush analyst dan ives said in a note to investorstwitter the paid blue tick waste or value for moneyif musk follows through on the announcement he will be belatedly fulfilling the promise he made to honor the results of his twitter polla total of 575 percent of more than 17 million accounts voted for him to step downi will resign as ceo as soon as i find someone foolish enough to take the job musk tweeted at the timemusk has fully owned twitter since late october and has repeatedly courted controversy as ceo sacking most of its staff readmitting farright figures to the platform suspending journalists and charging for previously free servicesnbcuniversal head of global advertising and partnerships linda yaccarino was a potential candidate for the twitter chief job according to a wall street journal reporti think whoever he hired deserves our compassion and pity said independent tech analyst rob enderle of enderle groupthe real test will be whether he can step aside and let her do her jobmusk remaining as chairman and chief technology officer at twitter could give users employees and advertisers the impression he is still in charge at twitter making it tough to win back trust the analyst reasonedthe situation really does require him to fully step out enderle said of musk releasing twitters reinsotherwise people wont believe she will be free to do what she needs to domusk recently made the tech firm part of an x shell corporation getting rid of the twitter company name but continuing to use it for the platformthe controversial tech magnate has talked publicly of using twitter to build an allpurpose x application that combines messages payments and morethis week he announced the addition of encrypted direct messages on twitter as well