Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, labeled the “world’s most famous YouTuber,” asked Elon Musk on Thursday if he could be Twitter’s new CEO, days after popular opinion had the chief of Twitter asked Tesla and SpaceX to resign as microblogging. site head. As many as 10 million or 57 percent of voters voted for Musk to unseat the company’s top position that he assumed just eight weeks ago. Musk began the Twitter poll by promising that he would “deliver” on the results. He also announced, once the verdict was out, that he would step down as CEO of Twitter when he found a suitable replacement.
“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone dumb enough to take the job! After that I will only be running 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.”
In the meantime, he also announced that he would also vote for Tweeple for all major policy changes going forward.
Musk’s leadership has been beset by chaos and controversy amid mass layoffs, the return of blocked accounts and the suspension of journalists who criticize him.
Even as the current head of Twitter searches for a new CEO, the winner will have to live in the shadow of the flighty billionaire, who believes the social media platform avoided certain ruin thanks to his leadership.
“The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive,” Musk tweeted, in one of the tweets that followed the survey results.
