International Center / Reported by Huang Yunxuan
▲ The controversy continued after Twitter was acquired by Musk. (Picture / Summary from elonrmuskk IG)
Elon Musk (Elon Musk) recently announced the acquisition of Twitter at a sky-high price of NT $14 trillion. After the takeover, news of reforms and layoffs continued. Earlier, foreign media broke the news that Twitter “cut about 50% of its staff and temporarily closed the office,” etc., blasting The employees were dissatisfied and filed a lawsuit. A few days ago, Musk suddenly launched a vote on Twitter, asking netizens whether he should step down as CEO of Twitter. “It’s only been 8 weeks since he became CEO, which has shocked everyone.
At around 9:30 Taiwan time today (21st), Musk “will step down as CEO of Twitter” in the communication department of Twitter PO. He said in a post, “Once someone is stupid enough to take over as CEO of Twitter, if he takes over this position, he will immediately step down as CEO” and revealed his future plans, saying he “will be in charge of teams software and servers”.
▲ Musk announced his resignation as CEO of Twitter. (Image / Reposted from Musk Twitter)
Earlier, Musk launched a poll on Twitter, asking netizens whether he should step down, and stressed that he would follow up on the poll results. As a result, more than half of netizens have agreed to step down as CEO of Twitter. The poll results showed that 57 percent of voters, or 10 million people, support Musk’s resignation.
As for who should take over as CEO of Twitter, according to CNN, several nominated candidates, including Sriram Krishnan, who was head of Twitter products, are considered the most likely candidates. Kushner, has also been pointed to as a possible dark horse.
