Musk to fly the Twitter coop – just as soon as he can find a better Twit than him
Two days after a poll of Twitter users voted decisively for Elon Musk to step down as CEO, he says he will do just that – and is looking for his replacement.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday.
This is the first time Musk has mentioned stepping down as chief of the social media platform, after Twitter users voted decisively in a poll for him to step down, which the billionaire launched on Sunday evening.
In the poll, 57.5 per cent of about 17.5 million people voted “yes”.
Musk had said on Sunday he would abide by the results.
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He has not provided a time frame for when he will step down and no successor has been named.
The poll results capped a whirlwind week that included changes to Twitter’s privacy policy and the suspension – and reinstatement – of journalists’ accounts that drew condemnation from news organisations, advocacy groups and officials across Europe.
Wall Street calls for Musk to step down had been growing for weeks and recently even Tesla Inc bulls have questioned his focus on the social media platform and whether that is distracting him from properly steering the electric vehicle business, where he is central to product design and engineering.
Musk has himself admitted he had too much on his plate, and said he would look for a Twitter CEO.
He said on Sunday, though, that there was no successor and that “no one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive”.
