Elon Musk persuaded Twitter's top sales executive to stay after she and other senior leaders quit, report says

• Elon Musk persuaded a top Twitter executive to stay after she resigned, Bloomberg reported.
• Reports said Robin Wheeler had quit, but she tweeted later on Thursday "I'm still here."

Elon Musk persuaded a senior executive at Twitter to stay at the company after she handed in her resignation.

Bloomberg reported the news on Friday.

Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of advertising sales, on Wednesday moderated a Q&A with Musk called "Advertising & the Future." The following day, The New York Times reported Wheeler had left Twitter.

However, on Thursday evening, Wheeler tweeted: "I'm still here."

Bloomberg reported that people familiar with the matter who requested to remain anonymous said Wheeler had quit her job on Thursday, but Musk convinced her to stay.

"Team. I'm still here," Wheeler wrote in a Slack message to colleagues on Thursday evening, according to the outlet. "This is really hard right now. Thank you for what you are doing because you are the lifeblood of this company."

Twitter and Wheeler didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal working hours.

Since Musk took over Twitter on October 27 and fired CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as three top execs, other senior figures have decided to leave the company. A source told Insider that Twitter's head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, who tried to ease users' concerns about content on the platform, resigned on Thursday.

After Twitter's chief information security officer, chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer quit, the Federal Trade Commission said in a statement to the Washington Post it was "tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern." It added that "no CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees."