Musk: I will resign as CEO of Twitter as soon as I find a successor

Almost 60 percent of Twitter users voted for Musk’s departure. Over 17.5 million users participated in the survey. “I’ll be resigning as CEO as soon as I find someone crazy enough to take over! After that, I’ll just be running the software and server teams,” Elon Musk tweeted.

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The survey didn’t offer a third option, “not sure/don’t know,” which the accuracy of such online polls is being questioned, but the results seem to offer Musk a way to gracefully exit a troubled tenure at the company. Musk released the survey after he said he made a mistake by introducing new restrictions banning mentions of rival websites such as Mastadon and Instagram. Due to the backlash, Musk has vowed not to make any additional major policy changes until he receives the results of the survey. half of Twitter’s staff and other stormy moves that made many wonder if the popular service has a future under the current management.