It’s clear that Linda Yaccarino was taking on a tough assignment when she became CEO of Twitter, now known as X, about two years ago. Her boss Elon Musk tweeted about a female CEO coming on board his newly acquired company before she’d even given her notice at NBC Universal.

Yaccarino’s departure caps a tumultuous run atop Elon Musk’s social-media platform and ​comes after the merger of xAI with X.

Polymarket users are split as to who will take over as CEO of X. A very thin majority of users believe no one will be named to the post, while nearly as many are banking on CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki. Linda Yaccarino,