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.

July 9 (Reuters) - Linda Yaccarino, one of Elon Musk's top deputies as CEO of his X social media site, is exiting the company in a surprise move just months after the platform was acquired by the billionaire's AI startup, xAI.

Rather than wooing clients, Ms Yaccarino ended up suing them, as X filed a lawsuit against an ad-industry group that it claimed had organised a boycott of X (the group denied this but shut down, citing the drain on its finances).