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Twitter proprietor Elon Musk confirmed Tuesday night he’ll step down as the corporate’s CEO, however solely when he identifies a successor, instantly addressing for the primary time a Twitter ballot he created this week wherein hundreds of thousands of customers voted for his ouster.
In a tweet, Musk mentioned he would resign “as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!”
He added that following his resignation as CEO, Musk would “run the software & servers teams” at Twitter, indicating he could proceed to train vital affect on the corporate’s decision-making.
The announcement comes after greater than a day of silence in regards to the ballot following its final result. On Monday, after greater than 17 million customers had voted — 57.5% of whom mentioned Musk ought to resign — the billionaire government addressed the outcomes solely not directly. He steered that future Twitter polls could possibly be restricted to paid customers of Twitter Blue, the corporate’s subscription service.
Musk’s ballot asking customers whether or not he ought to resign as CEO got here after a large backlash to Twitter’s abrupt suspension of a number of journalists who cowl him, in addition to Twitter’s determination to ban, after which un-ban, hyperlinks to different social media platforms together with Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon, a fast-growing Twitter rival that has octupled in dimension since October.
Musk’s temporary tenure as CEO has resulted in sweeping, often erratic shifts at one of many world’s most influential social media corporations.
Under his management, Twitter has laid off the vast majority of its employees, alienated main advertisers, welcomed former President Donald Trump again to the platform after his suspension within the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and launched inner communications to journalists about Twitter’s operations earlier than Musk took possession of the corporate.
Musk pressured remaining workers to take a pledge to develop into “extremely hardcore” of their work, and stopped implementing Twitter’s coverage in opposition to Covid-19 misinformation.
Over a matter of days, Twitter launched, after which was pressured to un-launch, a paid verification function that was immediately manipulated by satirical accounts impersonating verified main manufacturers, athletes and different public figures on the platform.
Musk’s penchant for making main product modifications primarily based on little greater than casual Twitter polls has highlighted his advert hoc and improvisational administration type. But that method has attracted rising criticism from many Twitter customers. Last week, Twitter suspended a number of journalists who had reported on Musk’s everlasting ban of an account that tracked his jet.
Growing criticism of Musk culminated in Sunday’s ballot that served as an efficient, if unscientific, referendum on Musk’s dealing with of the corporate since he closed his buy of Twitter in late October.