JUST IN: Elon Musk to Step Down as Twitter CEO But There’s a Catch

On Tuesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that he would be stepping down as CEO once he found a suitable replacement.

The announcement from Musk came after he released a poll on Twitter asking users if he should “step down as head of Twitter.”

“I will abide by the results of this poll,” he said about the poll.

After 24 hours, the final results of the poll were 58% of people in favor of him stepping down while 42% said he should remain as CEO.

“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted after the poll was completed.

There’s a catch however.

Musk made it very clear that he would still be greatly involved with the company, specifically with the software and servers teams.

“After that, I will just run the software & servers teams,” Musk added.

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.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2022

On Monday, Musk hinted that the poll may have been a ploy to catch bots on Twitter.

“Hey @elonmusk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1,” said Kim Dotcom on Twitter. “They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you.”

“I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots,” he added. “The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go.”

Musk then confirmed the thought, responding: “Interesting.”

Interesting

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

Musk fueled the speculation that he would not be stepping down even more when he responded to another Twitter user who suggested that only people who subscribe to Twitter Blue should be able to vote.

“Blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls. We actually have skin in the game,” Unfiltered Boss said on Twitter.

Musk replied, “Good point. Twitter will make that change.”

Good point. Twitter will make that change.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

The original Twitter poll was released over 24 hours ago so we should be receiving an update from Musk soon. Stay tuned…

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