Excited to announce that Ive hired a new CEO for X/Twitter, wroteElon Musktoday on the platform.

She will be starting in ~6 weeks!

Musk announced, before addressing his own plans.

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My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.

He had also previewed that his role would transition to running software and servers at the company.

More than 57% voted yes.

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Excited to announce that Ive hired a new CEO for X/Twitter.

That company accounts for the lion share of Musks vast wealth.

It also generated some skepticism given that he has previously previewed decisions that were delayed or did not materialize.

Twittersrecent move to paid verificationhas resulted in the loss of many users blue checkmarks.

In fact, they had linked to an account that tracked the movement of his private jet.