People spot awkward detail on Twitter CEO’s phone screen as she shows it off

People on X - formerly known as Twitter - have spotted an awkward detail on the iPhone home screen of Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X Corp.

The 59-year-old, who previously worked as the chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBCUniversal, took over the role of X Corp CEO from Elon Musk back in June.

In May, Musk tweeted that he had found the right person to take control of Twitter, writing: "Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO (chief executive officer) for X/Twitter.

"She will be starting in 6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops."

A day later, the Tesla founder added: "I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! @LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology.

"Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app."

After purchasing the platform for $44 billion in October last year, he has since turned Twitter into 'X, the everything app'.

However, it seems that the new CEO has everything but the app on her iPhone home screen.

Taking to X, many users have pointed out how the 'X CEO doesn't have the X app on her iPhone's home screen', during Wednesday's interview at the Code Conference.

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While deciding to show off her iPhone to the audience, eagle-eyed tech nerds were quick to make their voices heard.

"Another 'Tech CEO' that doesn’t care about technology at all," one person slammed, as another added: "The way her iPhone Home Screen looks like indicates she barely cares about technology."

However, as others pointed out, there is more than one home screen.

"Like most people, I imagine she installs an app then just leaves it where it lands," a third person said.

"She lets the operating system find the stuff she uses most often.

"Then she just pulls down on the screen, or uses Siri, or… The point is, if folk are trying to use her home page as proof that she doesn’t use Twitter, then I’m not sure they’ve done it."

Someone else added: "She may be the X CEO, but that doesn’t mean she would have any reason to be ON X all the time. TC might be CEO of Apple but he does a lot more than use Macs and iPhones."

Topics: Elon Musk, Twitter, Technology

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