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Linda Yakarino took over Twitter leadership in June 2023.
CEO Linda Yacarino of social media platform X has resigned on Wednesday (July 9) after working for two years. Linda gave information about this by sharing the post on X. Linda wrote, ‘She will now work with Musk’s AI company XAI, who makes Groke Chatbot.’ However, she did not say which position she would work in XAI.
He took over Twitter leadership in June 2023, when Musk bought the platform for $ 44 billion and changed its name. Linda brought features like community notes in the platform and made several changes about the security of users. Linda thanked the company owner Ellon Musk for giving an opportunity in the post.
Worked to convert x into ‘Eventing App’
Linda posted and wrote, ‘When I first talked to her vision for X with Ilon Musk, I knew that this would be a special opportunity for me. I am grateful for this responsibility of him, in which I worked to save freedom of expression, give a new direction to the company and convert X into ‘Everything App’.
He praised the X team and said that ‘Together with them have made historical changes in the company. We first focused on the safety of users (especially children) and won the trust of advertisers again. This team worked hard day and night and worked for new innovations such as community notes to the early X Money.
Musk replied in just 5 words to the announcement of Linda’s resignation. ‘Thank you for your contribution.’
Linda did 3 big things for X
- Community notes: This is a user-based fact-checking feature. In this, people can highlight wrong or misleading information on posts. Its purpose was to reduce missinformation and make the platform reliable.
- X Money (Payment Service): The X led by Linda prepared to launch a new financial service feature, called X Money. This is a payment platform, which will allow users to send money, such as Wechat of China. It was to be launched before he left.
- Brand Safety and Advertising Tools: Linda launched several tools and policies to bring back advertisers, such as brand safety controls. From these advertisers could choose that their advertisements should not be seen near hate content, pornographic materials, or violent posts. This returned to big brands like Apple, Cocamast, Disney, and IBM again to X.
Linda will work in Groke Chatbot making company Xai
Linda Grock will work with AI company XAI, which makes a chatbot. Information about XAI was first revealed in April. The Wall Street Journal then told that Alan Musk formed a new company called XAI on 9 March 2023. The company’s headquarters in Nevada, the city of Texas, USA and Musk is its only listed director. Jered Birchle, director of Musk’s Family Office, has been made the secretary of the company.
Fortune, Forbes chose Linda as the most influential woman … Know about them
59 -year -old Linda NBC is the chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships at Universal Media LLC. In 2011, after joining the NBC Universal Media, he created a one platform for the company. One platform replaced the premium video ecosystem. This platform helps advertisers to recreate the audience in all screen and format.
Linda is also known for commercial partnership with brands like Apple, Google. At the same time, publications like Fortune, Forbes have chosen her influential and powerful woman. Talking about Linda’s education, he has a degree in Liberal Arts from Pen State University. Linda is married to Cloud Peter Madrazo. Both Italians are of origin and live in New York.
Linda Yacarino has been the top advertising sales executive of NBC Universal.
Musk bought Twitter on 27 October 2022 for $ 44 billion (existing value-₹ 3.76 lakh crore). He then made several other changes including renaming the platform to rename X.
1. Exhaled more than half of employees
After purchasing Twitter on 27 October 2022, Musk first took out four top officials of the company. These included CEO Parag Aggarwal, Finance Chief Ned Segal, Legal Executive Vijaya Gadde and Scene Edgate. When Musk took command of X, it had around 7500 amlai, but now around 2500 is left.
2. Non-blocking several block accounts
In November 2022, Musk unblock several block accounts including former US President Donald Trump. He had a poll on X on Trump’s return. He had asked, should the account of President Trump be restored. Yes or no. More than 1.5 crore users participated in voting and 52% of people replied yes.
3. Blue Subscription Service launched
On 12 December 2022, Ellon Musk launched a blue subscription in some countries at $ 8 per month. In February 2023, it was launched for web users in India for Rs 650 for mobile in Rs 900 a month. It contains many features including blue tick, long video posts. Musk later changed the name of this service from Twitter Blue to X premium.
4. Legacy Blue Check Marks removed
On 20 April 2023, Musk removed all the legacy blue check mark from his platform. Blue Czech mark was previously reserved for the verified account of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and other public personalities. Musk added it to the subscription service. Now the user with subscription gets a blue checkmark only after the Twitter team review.
5. Character limit increased, post reading limit
Musk has increased the character limit of the post from 280 to 25,000. When this company was formed, the character limit was 140. The post reading limit is also of Apply. Verified users can read only ten thousand posts in a day. Unrewded users one thousand posts, while new universified users can read only 500 posts daily.
6. Linda Yacarino made CEO of the company
On 5 June 2023, Linda Yacarino joined the company as CEO. Earlier, she was the chairman of Global Advertising and Partnership at NBC Universal. Linda was made the CEO of the company by Musk. He himself was handling this responsibility before Linda.
7. Change the name and logo of the platform to x
On 24 July 23, Ilon Musk made the biggest change and changed the name and logo of ‘Twitter’ to x. On changing the name, Musk had said- Twitter will provide all types of financial service in the coming months. In such a situation, the name Twitter has no meaning. At the same time, CEO Linda Yacarino said- AI Poward ‘X’ will connect us in ways that we are now starting to imagine.
8. Increased limit to upload video
Ilon Musk has increased the limit to upload videos on X. Premium users can upload videos of up to 4 hours. The limit for non-pramium users is 140 seconds. X started a short video feature. A dedicated “Videos” tab has been added to it.
