Musk tapped Yaccarino to replace him as CEO in 2023, shortly after purchasing the platform, then called Twitter, for $44 billion in October 2022. He said Yaccarino would focus primarily on Twitter's business while he focused on product design and new technology.

The abrupt resignation of X CEO Linda Yaccarino calls into question the fate of the world's largest and most politically relevant real-time social discourse platform. Why it matters: Yaccarino was hired to rehabilitate X's ad business and bring stability to the company,