WASHINGTON: Twitter chief Elon Musk has announced that he will step down as Twitter CEO after facing setbacks in opinion polls. The announcement was made through Twitter itself. Musk tweeted he will step down as soon as he find someone foolish to take the job of CEO and then manage the software and the server team only.

"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.",his tweet reads.

I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2022

The new announcement comes after a majority of people voted against an opinion poll conducted by Musk asking whether he should step down as head of Twitter. After the acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk, who implemented mass layoffs, introduced new policies and features to the displeasure of many users which urged him to do an opinion poll.

Musk has also said that he will accept the result of the vote on whether he should step down as the head of Twitter. More than 17 million people responded to the question with two options, 'Yes' and 'No'. 57.5 percent of those who participated in the poll expressed the opinion that Musk should not continue in his position. Only 42.5 percent votes were received in favour of him.