Elon Musk has confirmed his replacement as Twitter CEO would probably be named “by the end of this year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Tesla billionaire spoke in a video call to the World Government <\/strong><\/a>Summit in Dubai, where he highlighted ensuring the platform’s functionality remained his top priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: \u201cI think I need to stabilize the organization and just make sure it\u2019s in a financial healthy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m guessing probably toward the end of this year would be good timing to find someone else to run the company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Elon Musk fired Twitter engineer over his waning popularity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is unclear how seriously Musk will consider that timeframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His comments came hours after he tweeted a picture of his shiba inu dog, Floki, as the company’s “CEO.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk tweeted: “So much better than that other guy!” <\/p>\n\n\n\n After the posts, the value of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency <\/strong><\/a>based on the image of a shiba inu meme, surged by about 5 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His acquisition of Twitter followed chaos at the microblogging site due to mass firings and other cost-cutting initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk gave a 35-minute talk in which he discussed his concerns about artificial intelligence, the fall of civilization, and the prospect of extraterrestrial invaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked about Twitter, Musk described both Tesla<\/strong><\/a> and SpaceX as able to run without his direct, day-to-day engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: \u201cTwitter is still somewhat a startup in reverse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s work required here to get Twitter to sort of a stable position and to really build the engine of software engineering.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk also tried to portray his takeover of Twitter, based in San Francisco, as a cultural correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>ABC News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elon Musk announced that his replacement as Twitter CEO would probably be named “by the end of this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[42,306,686,977,329],"class_list":["post-36855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-ceo","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-elon-musk","tag-layoffs","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}