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Elon Musk proclaimed that he would step down as Twitter CEO if the users of the popular social media platform demanded his removal.
Musk conducted a new poll at 6:20 p.m. on Sunday, asking his more than 122 million followers if he should abdicate his leadership role on Twitter.
Musk tweeted, “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.”
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
At the time of publication, nearly 5 million Twitter users voted in Musk’s poll. Approximately 58% called for Musk to step down versus roughly 42% who wanted him to retain his Twitter CEO duties.
The poll is set to expire at around 4:20 a.m. on Monday.
A Twitter account suspected that Musk “already has the new CEO picked out.” The user hypothesized, “Elon will retire to being Chairman of the Board and Tweeter.”
Musk replied, “No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.”
Musk responded to another Twitter user, “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”
Popular podcast host, computer scientist, and artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman offered to be the Twitter CEO for free.
Fridman tweeted, “Fun suggestion @elonmusk: Let me run Twitter for a bit. No salary. All in. Focus on great engineering and increasing the amount of love in the world. Just offering my help in the unlikely case it’s useful.”
Musk replied, “You must like pain a lot. One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?”
Despite the conditions, Fridman still wanted the job, and vowed to “turn it around.”