Musk polls Twitter users on whether he should be CEO—57.5% want him to quit
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Elon Musk polled Twitter users yesterday on whether he should remain as the company's CEO and claimed he would abide by the results. The poll concluded with 17.5 million votes, with a large majority urging Musk to step down.
"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll," Musk wrote. The "Yes" option was selected by 57.5 percent of poll respondents.
Musk hasn't confirmed whether he will actually step down. "The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive," Musk wrote last night after posting the poll. "No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor," he also wrote in response to a tweet speculating that he "already has the new CEO picked out."