Elon Musk will step down as Twitter CEO, but there's a condition

Billionaire Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that he will step down as Twitter's CEO once he finds a successor.

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Elon tweeted, "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job."

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He also added, "after that, I will just run the software & servers teams."

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This is the first time Musk has brought up leaving his position as CEO of the social networking site.

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His response came after 57.5% of around 17.5 million people voted for him to resign in a poll launched by the billionaire.

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