Elon Musk assured that he will leave the position of CEO of Twitter after the publication of a Code List survey

Entrepreneur, Elon MuskHe assured this Tuesday that he will resign from the position of Twitter CEOwhen he finds someone to replace him, and in the meantime he’ll just be in charge of running the software and server management teams.

“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone dumb enough to accept the position.. Then I will limit myself to directing the software and server teams, ”Musk assured in one of his tweets without giving further details.

On Sunday, the billionaire launched a poll on his own account asking users to vote on whether he should continue as CEO: Within twelve hours they voted. 17 million users and a 57% asked him to leave office.

Several media outlets published this Tuesday that Musk was actively looking for a possible Executive Directorand the economic portal CNBC specified that this search did not begin on Sunday, but many weeks ago, apparently without much success.

It is unknown if the raid was carried out inside or outside the company, which has been very undercapitalized human resources after Musk removed the previous administration, lay off half the employees and after that hundreds more will voluntarily leave it.

In June, before the purchase of the network was formalized, Musk had already leaked that he would be in charge of the company for “a few months”, although that promise seemed difficult to keep given the interest that Twitter provoked in him since his arrival and his extreme personal involvement in its course.

So much so that he Tesla investors and senior executives -Musk’s other great company and source of his great fortune- had already been asking him for several weeks more or less openly to appoint an executive director to Twittersince it took him a long time to attend to his other businesses.

To offset Twitter’s losses, Musk sold two large blocks of Tesla stock between November and December, worth 3.650 million and 3.900 million dollarsrespectively.

The losses are mainly due to the advertiser leaksymptom of his concern about the ups and downs of the company due to Musk’s continuous changes of opinion, and they are so serious that the millionaire said that the company “goes straight to bankruptcy” if nobody remedies it.

In recent weeks, Elon Musk has carried out a series of investigations related to the operation of Twitter in the past and on the actions that the company has carried out recently under his directionamong them, if he reinstated the dozen journalists from international media such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post that he had suspended from the platform, highly criticized inside and outside the media.

He has also clashed with some users on multiple fronts and on Sunday asked Twitter users to decide whether he should continue to run the platform. after admitting he was wrong by launching new restrictions that ban mentions of rival websites on Twitter.

The latest survey came after another significant policy change since Musk acquired the company in October. Twitter had announced that users will no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms that the company described as “forbidden.”

That decision created a immediate stirincluding criticism from longtime supporters of Twitter’s new owner, so much so that the billionaire vowed not to make any more major policy changes without consulting users first.

The move to block competitors was the latest attempt by Musk to crack down on certain speech, after last week he shut down a Twitter account that tracked the flights of his private plane.

Between the prohibited platforms They include mainstream websites like Facebook and Instagram, and others like Mastodon, Tribal, Nostr, Post, and Truth Social, run by former President Donald Trump. However, the company did not provide any explanation as to why the blacklist included those seven websites and not others like Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn.

(With information from EFE)

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