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Elon Musk says he's found a new CEO for Twitter, a woman who will start in 6 weeks:
Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called.
He did not name the person but she will be starting in about six weeks.
Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has been insisting he is not the company's permanent CEO.
The Tesla billionaire said in a tweet Thursday that his role will transition to being Twitter's executive chairman and chief technology officer.
Musk has been saying for nearly six months that he plans to find a new CEO for San Francisco-based Twitter.
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Elon Musk Says He's Found a New CEO for Twitter, a Woman Who Will Start in 6 Weeks
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by quietus on Sunday May 14, @11:13AM (8 children)
She's an advertising executive with a reputation of reliability -- a steady hand who will return solid companies back to twitter.
She's also been active in equal opportunities for women, which makes it likely she'll kick out the raving lunatics of the woke/anti-woke camp, as well as other fanatics.
The only remaining question is whether we, the consumers, will still think twitter interesting enough without the foaming-at-the-mouth trainwreck crowd.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14, @11:27AM (7 children)
> She's an advertising executive with a reputation of reliability
Isn't that a non sequitur? A long time ago, big bucks advertising switched from "describing a product" to "linking a product to sex, desirable lifestyle, (etc)" -- not far from professional lying. Thus it seems that nearly everyone in the USA now feels that they have to drive a huge truck/SUV...just to move their ass around.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by quietus on Sunday May 14, @05:17PM
... a reputation of reliability [within the advertising industry and their clients]. Also, selling stuff (i.e. non-basic needs stuff) has relied on emotions, need for status and the fear of missing out, since Eve handed Adam a strange new fruit.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday May 14, @05:52PM (2 children)
I guess the 4-wheeled aircraft carriers that were American cars in the 1970s were before your time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15, @12:32AM
> I guess the 4-wheeled aircraft carriers that were American cars in the 1970s were before your time.
Well within my time. We had one of these in the family (bought for $200 at the end of its life as a "winter car" for use in the road salt): https://www.ultimatespecs.com/car-specs/Buick/130704/Buick-Wildcat-Sport-Coupe-1970-Custom-3-speed.html [ultimatespecs.com]
As big as it was, the Wildcat weighed 4288 lbs (1945 kgs). Less than a lot of current SUVs and about the same as a stripped current pickup truck (most trucks sold are heavily optioned and weigh ~1000# more).
My SO's family had a similar vintage Olds 442, that was well under 4000#.
10 years later ('80s) was the "great downsizing" and the end of those large sedans.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Monday May 15, @04:08AM
Those old cars were long with a hood you can land an airplane on, but other than their length they aren't actually that large by today's standards. A modern pickup or large SUV absolutely towers over them, and even compacts will rival them on weight.
(Score: 3, Informative) by gtomorrow on Sunday May 14, @07:26PM (2 children)
Non-sequitur [wiktionary.org]? I think the word you were looking for is dichotomy [wiktionary.org] or possibly paradox [wiktionary.org].
In any case, 1) she's an advertising executive with a reputation of reliability...for her clients, and 2) no one said she's an ad exec with a reputation for honesty.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15, @10:46AM (1 child)
Oxymoron.
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Monday May 15, @03:52PM
Depending on how pedantic you want to be, I suppose. It wasn't exactly a contradiction in terms, but close enough. The most memorable definition of oxymoron [wiktionary.org] is George Carlin's "Jumbo Shrimp" or "Military Intelligence."