Elon Musk said Tuesday night that he will resign to the Twitter CEO job “as soon as I find someone naive enough” to accept the job. His confirmation arrives 48 hours following a poll asking his supporters if he should step down.
I will resign as CEO! as soon as i find someone naive enough to accept the position!”, Musk wrote. “After that, I’ll just run the software and server teams.”
the now second richest man in the world (lost top spot on Tesla’s stock plunge) took a poll Sunday night asking his followers if he “should step down as CEO of Twitter,” vowing to “comply with the poll results.” The poll closed on Monday night with more than 17 million participants and a victory for “Yes”, with the 57,5% of the votes.
Although Musk had promised to comply with the resultthe next day he suggested that bots were rigging the poll, and announced that he would change Twitter’s rules so that only Twitter Blue subscribers might participate. in the votes that decide important changes in the social network. The $8 a month subscription It is Musk’s big bet to compensate for the flight of advertisers, and in the future it might be essential to have visibility on Twitteraccording to the plans that the entrepreneur.
In any case, it seems that the poll will not be repeated even if Musk has questioned the results. Leaving the CEO position was in the businessman’s plans from the beginning, but the narrative changed during the World Cup final in Qatar, when Twitter announced that it would ban accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other networks social (specifically Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr y Post).
The policy change caused a mass rejection, so Twitter hizo a survey to test if I should move on with the new rule. What As expected, he found 87% of the votes once morest. Now the tweets announcing the change are deleted, and there is no trace of the regulations in the web. On the other hand, the rule that prohibits publishing the real-time location of a person remains in forcecreated days ago for kill @’s accountElonJet, that followed the flights of Elon Musk’s private plane.
As for the next CEO, dozens of people are willing to fill the role, including the co-founder of MySpace Tom Andersonwhat He has been throwing the cane at the owner of Twitter for days. profiles closest to Muskas their personal attorney Alex Spiro, the investor and compulsive tweeter Jason Calacanis or Jack Dorsey, founder and two-time CEO the Twitterwould be more obvious options, but everything indicates that Musk is not considering them.
Twitter is going through its most difficult moment. With all the pressure exerted by the debt of the purchasesale, ladvertisers fleeing en masse, mass layoffs, lawsuits for non-payment or unfair dismissal and inspections by the authorities because the employees are sleeping in the office, Musk has a lot to worry regarding as he runs two other big companies. Tesla stock has fallen 18% in the last month, and rumors grow, powered by Musk himself, that Twitter is preparing for bankruptcy.
