Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, billed as “the most famous YouTuber in the world”, asked Elon Musk on Thursday if he could be the new CEO of Twitter, days after the Tesla and SpaceX boss was widely believed to have been asked to step down from microblogging. site head. As many as 10 million or 57 percent of voters voted to oust Musk from the company’s top job, which he took over just eight weeks ago.
Musk began the poll on Twitter by promising to “stand by” the results. He also announced after the sentencing that he would step down as CEO of Twitter until a suitable replacement was found. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone stupid enough to take the job! After that I’ll just run the software and server teams (sic),” he tweeted earlier this week. When the 24-year-old YouTuber asked the world’s second-richest billionaire, “Can I be the new CEO of Twitter?”, Musk replied, “It’s not out of the question.”
Meanwhile, he also announced that he will vote from Tweeple for all major policy changes as well. Musk’s leadership has been wracked by chaos and controversy amid mass layoffs, the return of banned accounts and the suspension of journalists critical of him. Even as Twitter’s current boss searches for a new CEO, the winner will have to live in the shadow of the mercurial billionaire, who thinks the social media platform has avoided certain doom because of his leadership. “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive,” Musk wrote in one of the tweets after the poll results.
