Elon Musk agrees to resign as Twitter CEO if he finds a replacement

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has finally spoken up about his promised resignation from his post after Monday’s poll. Musk also said he would quit after finding a replacement.

In the poll, 57.5 percent of the voters had said he should resign, while 42.5 percent had voted no.

“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,” Musk tweeted.

This is the first time Musk has mentioned stepping down as chief of the social media platform after Twitter users voted decisively in a poll for him to step down from Twitter.

Wall Street calls for Musk to step down had been growing for weeks and recently even Tesla Inc bulls have questioned his focus on the social media platform and whether that is distracting him from properly steering the electric vehicle business, where he is central to product design and engineering.

Musk has himself admitted he had too much on his plate, and said he would look for a Twitter CEO. He said on Sunday, though, that there was no successor and that “no one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.”