Musk says to step down as Twitter CEO after successor found
Elon Musk has announced he will step down as Twitter’s chief executive officer after finding a replacement.
'I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!' Elon Musk said in a tweet late on Tuesday. 'After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.' he added
Twitter chief's announcement came following an online survey he posted on Twitter in which he asked if he should step down as head of the microblogging and social media platform, which he took over earlier this year in a high-profile 44 billion US dollar deal.
'I will abide by the results of this poll,' Musk said when posting the 12-hour online survey.
Over 17.5 million votes were cast across the world, with a clear majority of 57.5 Percent saying yes versus only 42.5 Percent saying no, according to the results the billionaire announced on Monday.
The poll also followed Musk's swift and apparently erratic decisions to ban and un-ban several reporters from the platform, several of whom were his critics, as well as firing about half of Twitter’s staff and other tumultuous moves that left many questioning if the popular service had any future ahead of it, at least under the current leadership.
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