Chris Licht, Jeff Zucker's successor at CNN, will be signing off Twitter when new his job starts in two weeks.
"May 2 will be my first official day in the office at CNN & my last day on Twitter," Licht said on Twitter. "Twitter can be a great journalistic tool, but it can also skew what's really important in the world. I'm logging off & looking forward to working with the incredible team at CNN."
Licht, who was co-creator of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"and executive producer for "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," has not publicly said whether he'll be encouraging CNN employees and on-air talent to minimize their own Twitter usage.
CNN's reporters, anchors, and pundits — like most U.S. media members covering the political, sports, and entertainment realms — are regularly engaged on Twitter.
CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, recently hired Licht to replace Zucker, who had been forced to resign following an ethics and personal-conduct investigation.
Twitter has approximately 396.5 million users, and more than 206 million daily users.
In the U.S., 92% of the total tweets reportedly come from 10% of the top users; and on average, the typical American Twitter user spends 158.2 minutes — or nearly 2 hours, 40 minutes — on Twitter per month.
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