Elon Musk announced he's stepping down as the CEO of Twitter – Vox

It took over 40 hours, but Elon Musk has finally acknowledged the results of a public poll he ran calling for him to step down as CEO of Twitter. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted on Tuesday night. “After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.” The admission comes after a poll Musk himself launched, in which some 17 million Twitter users — or 57.5 percent of those polled — said they were in favor of Musk resigning. Musk did not immediately accept the results publicly, which he said he’d do but rather cast doubt on the validity of the poll. It wasn’t just anonymous Twitter users who wanted Musk to step down. Outside investors also called for Musk to focus less on Twitter and more on Tesla. They’ve seen the Twitter drama as something that distracted Musk from his more lucrative business at Tesla, which saw its stock price fall precipitously in recent weeks. Musk has long said he eventually wanted to step down as Twitter CEO, so it’s unclear why he seemed so unwilling to accept the results of the poll calling
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