Elon Musk mentioned Tuesday that he plans on remaining in his place as Twitter’s chief govt officer till he finds somebody keen to exchange him.
Musk’s announcement got here after tens of millions of Twitter customers requested him to step down in an unscientific ballot the billionaire himself created and promised to abide by.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted. “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”
Since taking up San Francisco-based Twitter in late October, Musk’s run as CEO has been marked by shortly issued guidelines and insurance policies which have usually been withdrawn or modified quickly after being made public.
He has additionally alienated some buyers in his electrical automobile firm Tesla who’re involved that Twitter is taking an excessive amount of of his consideration.
Some of Musk’s actions have unnerved Twitter advertisers and turned off customers. They embody shedding half of Twitter’s workforce, letting go contract content material moderators and disbanding a council of belief and security advisors that the corporate shaped in 2016 to handle hate speech, youngster exploitation, suicide, self-harm and different issues on the platform.
Musk, who additionally helms the SpaceX rocket firm, has beforehand acknowledged how troublesome it is going to be to seek out somebody to take over as Twitter CEO.
Bantering with Twitter followers final Sunday, he mentioned that the particular person changing him “must like pain a lot” to run an organization that he mentioned has been “in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted.
As issues stand, Musk would nonetheless retain overwhelming affect over platform as its proprietor. He fired the corporate’s board of administrators quickly after taking management.
