Will resign as CEO as soon as I find 'someone foolish enough to take the job': Twitter owner Elon Musk

Will resign as CEO as soon as I find 'someone foolish enough to take the job': Twitter owner Elon Musk

Twitter’s new owner billionaire Elon Musk said he will resign as the social media company’s chief executive as soon as he finds “someone foolish enough to take the job,” two days after users voted for him to quit in a poll he ran online.

The 51-year-old billionaire promised earlier to abide by the result of a Twitter poll which saw 57.5 per cent of users vote "yes" to him quitting the role.

“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 and servers teams,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday. Musk added the tweet to his earlier post on Sunday in which he had asked in an online poll if he should step down as head of Twitter.