Elon Musk on Tuesday claimed he’ll resign as CEO of Twitter as soon as he has discovered a alternative.
“I’ll resign as CEO as quickly as I discover somebody silly sufficient to take the job! After that, I’ll simply run the software program & servers groups,” the billionaire tweeted.
On Sunday, Musk posted a ballot on the social media platform asking customers if he ought to step down as its head, and stated he would abide by the outcomes.
Greater than 17.5 million votes have been forged. A majority ― 57.5% ― voted sure.
Shortly after posting the ballot, Musk had stated he didn’t have anybody lined as much as take over. “Nobody desires the job who can truly preserve Twitter alive. There isn’t a successor,” he tweeted.
Musk appointed himself CEO lower than two months in the past, shortly after finalizing his $44 billion takeover of Twitter on the finish of October. He instantly dissolved the corporate’s board of administrators, fired high executives and laid off round half the corporate’s workforce.
Since then, the self-avowed “free speech absolutist” has made a protracted listing of erratic adjustments to the corporate’s insurance policies, together with these pertaining to content material moderation, suspended customers and promotion of opponents.
Final week, he attracted monumental backlash after Twitter instantly and with out rationalization suspended a number of outstanding tech journalists who had reported on him. He later accused them of successfully sharing his “assassination coordinates” by reporting on a Twitter account that tracked his non-public aircraft’s flights.