Elon Musk resigns

To a large number of people the exit of Elon Musk came as a good riddance. The eccentric billionaire Elon Musk resigns announced his decision to step down as CEO of Twitter after he lost a poll on the platform asking users whether he should resign from the position. Interestingly, the poll published by the tycoon had only two options, so apart from the 57.5 per cent who voted in favour of him stepping down, another 42.5 per cent were against his departure as CEO of the company. Nevertheless, Musk added that once he finds a person to succeed him, he will only manage the software teams as well as the servers. Musk’s resignation as CEO of Twitter comes almost two months after the deal to buy the company for $44 billion was made official and during his brief stay at the top he was caught up in several policies as a result of his decisions including the recent decision to ban the promotion of other social networks on its platform, which clashes with his promise to defend freedom of expression. Along with allowing controversial Donald Trump to regain access to his account, the profiles of several journalists were suspended for allegedly giving personal information about the tycoon. TW

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