Longtime NBCUniversal advertising executive Linda Yaccarino will replace Elon Musk as Twitter CEO, according to reports on Friday.

Yaccarino, who served as the global chair for advertising and partnerships at NBC, announced her resignation from the company on Friday morning, a day after Musk said that he hired a new, female CEO for the social media platform. He did not name a successor at the time.

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The billionaire said in a Thursday tweet that the new CEO would start in about six weeks, and that he will become executive chair and chief technology officer, "overseeing product, software and sysops."

Yaccarino is a graduate of Penn State per her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindayaccarino/" target="_blank">LinkedIn profile.</a>&nbsp;

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Longtime advertising executive Linda Yaccarino resigned from NBC Universal on Friday, a day after Elon Musk announced he hired a new CEO for the social media platform.{ai:summary}<p>Reports suggest that Linda Yaccarino, the former global chair for advertising and partnerships at NBC, will replace Elon Musk as the CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino's resignation from NBC was announced on Friday, a day after Musk stated that he had hired a new female CEO for the social media platform without providing a name. Musk will become executive chair and chief technology officer, overseeing product, software and sysops.</p><p>Linda Yaccarino, NBC's former global chair for advertising and partnerships, is set to become Twitter's new CEO, replacing Elon Musk. Musk recently stated that he hired a new female CEO for the social media platform, with Yaccarino believed to be the person filling this role. Musk himself will become executive chair and chief technology officer, with a 6-week gap speculated between him taking on this new role and Yaccarino joining the company.</p>

Linda Yaccarino leaves NBCUniversal, possible replacement for Musk as Twitter CEO

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