Rumors Swirl That Adam Bain Will Be The Next Twitter CEO, But Costolo’s Not Going Anywhere Yet

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Disclosure: I own less than 500 shares each of Twitter, Yahoo, and Aol stock.

The new year always brings new speculative tech predictions. Some of the most common predictions this year are that neither Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer will make it through 2015 with their titles intact. Wall Street analysts and activist investors have called for changes at Twitter and Yahoo ( and at our parent company Aol) so many times that perhaps everyone should just play CEO musical chairs: Dick Costolo can come to Aol, Tim Armstrong can go to Yahoo, and Marissa Mayer can go to Twitter.

While Costolo was SoulCycling to Beyoncé in Las Vegas this week, chatter abounded at CES, among "people who hear things," that Twitter President of Global Revenue Adam Bain is the front-runner for the next Twitter CEO.

It's not clear where this rumor came from, but it's hit the surface...