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Musk Says He Will Resign As Twitter CEO Following Poll On The Issue

Photo Caption: Twitter CEO: I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! (U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY

Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Tuesday he would step down following a poll in which a majority of votes said he should do so.

“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,” he tweeted.

Musk on Sunday posted a poll to his account regarding his future as the head of the company.

“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” he wrote, adding in a second tweet he posted later, “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”

Earlier reports on Tuesday indicated that Musk is “actively” searching for a new CEO for Twitter after the poll. At the same time, Musk indicated before confirming that he would step down that he believed that the vote may have been rigged by bots.

In the poll results which were posted on Monday, 57 percent of voters, or 10 million votes, favored Musk stepping down just eight weeks after he took ownership of the company for $44 billion.

But polling company HarrisX on Tuesday tweeted out their own poll of Twitter users, in which 61 percent of respondents voted to keep Musk as CEO.

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