‘Inspired by Elon Musk’: Linda Yaccarino’s first response after turning into Twitter CEO

After being appointed Twitter CEO on Friday, Linda Yaccarino reacted to the news for the primary time on Sunday by tweeting that she was impressed by outgoing boss Elon Musk. She shared her pleasure about integrating Musk’s ‘vision for a better future’ with Twitter’s transformation.

Responding to Musk’s tweet saying the change in prime management, she thanked the billionaire and wrote, “I’ve long been inspired by [Musk’s] vision to create a brighter future. I’m excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform this business together!”

Following up in a thread, she acknowledged the large soar in her Twitter follower depend (reportedly from a mere 7k to a whopping 300k presently) and admitted that she will not be as energetic as the previous chief of the microblogging platform but. However, she stays dedicated to constructing Twitter 2.0, she added, inviting ideas from customers.

“I see I have some new followers… I’m not as prolific as@elonmusk (yet!), but I’m just as committed to the future of this platform. Your feedback is VITAL to that future. I’m here for all of it. Let’s keep the conversation going and build Twitter 2.0 together!” Yaccarino tweeted.

Musk, who has served as CEO since final October, introduced on Thursday that he had discovered a CEO with out naming Yaccarino.

The identification of the brand new boss was revealed on Friday with Musk tweeting,”I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk might be Twitter’s chief know-how officer and government chairman specializing in product design and new know-how whereas Yaccarino will maintain the enterprise operations.

The former NBCUniversal promoting chief is credited with integrating and digitizing advert gross sales at NBCU. Her problem now might be to woo again advertisers which have fled Twitter since Musk acquired it final 12 months for $44 billion.

Musk’s tenure at Twitter’s helm has beenchaotic. He started his first day firing the corporate’s prime executives, adopted byroughly 80% of its workers. Twitter has been attempting to pump in advert revenueas Musk revealed earlier this 12 months that the corporate had suffered a large decline in earnings.

(With inputs from companies)