{"id":70166,"date":"2025-07-10T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70166"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:51:14","slug":"linda-yaccarino-resigns-as-x-ceo-after-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/10\/linda-yaccarino-resigns-as-x-ceo-after-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Yaccarino Resigns as X CEO After Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linda Yaccarino has officially stepped down as CEO of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, after a two-year tenure marked by major transitions and bold initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing her resignation on Wednesday via the platform, Yaccarino thanked Elon Musk for entrusting her with the role of reshaping X into the \u201cEverything App\u201d while safeguarding free speech.<\/p>\n<p>She credited the X team for their efforts in improving user safety, restoring advertiser trust, and rolling out innovations such as Community Notes and X Money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we achieved a historic business turnaround,\u201d she noted, highlighting her commitment to creating a space where free expression and brand safety could co-exist.<\/p>\n<p>Yaccarino also praised users, partners, and staff for helping transform X into what she described as \u201cthe world\u2019s most powerful culture signal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to her exit, Elon Musk expressed gratitude for her contributions. As of the time of this report, no successor has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Linda Yaccarino has officially stepped down as CEO of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, after a two-year tenure marked by major transitions and bold initiatives. Announcing her resignation on Wednesday via the platform, Yaccarino thanked Elon Musk for entrusting her with the role of reshaping X into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70168,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70166\/revisions\/70168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}