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The Street
Ian Krietzberg

Twitter Users Already Have a Leading Guess About Musk's New CEO

Elon Musk has found a new CEO for Twitter, the social media platform the billionaire acquired for $44 billion last year. 

In a Tweet May 11,  Musk said that she will be starting in 6 weeks. 

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That helps narrow the field a lot, if the person actually goes through with it. 

Twitter users were quick to launch their favorite candidates. 

Podcaster and veteran Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher said her first guess is Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising and Partnerships at NBCUniversal. 

"Why Linda? Ad powerhouse and well liked. It’s a ceo job for her, so upward,"  Swisher tweeted. In addition, "She can obvi tolerate assholes since she has been in media for a brick."

Amanda Silberling, senior culture writer at Techcrunch theorized that it is one of the few women Musk follows on twitter "so it's not gonna be hard to figure out who it is." Yaccarino is among the 30, as is ARK's Cathie Wood, who is a big fan of Musk 

Others offered a different possibility.

And then there was this idea:

As for Musk, "My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops," Musk wrote. 

Musk, who has become known for his often chaotic, constantly unpredictable antics on the platform, has been making a slew of changes to Twitter, recently renaming it 'X Corp.' 

This evolution to 'X' comes as part of Musk's mission to turn Twitter into an everything app, structured along the lines of China's WeChat. 

Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced May 9 that he will be bringing his show to Twitter; Musk hopes that "many others, particularly from the left, also choose to be content creators on this platform."

Musk has also expressed interest in adding a dating/job seeking component to Twitter, as well as turning the social media app into a competitive video streaming platform. 

Twitter rolled out an update May 11 that encrypts users' DMs; the voice and video chat, according to Musk, are on the way. 

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