Could Elon Musk quit Twitter after poll?

Musk vowed to step down as head of Twitter if people voted him out in his new poll that he posted on Sunday. And while some critics say he already has a replacement CEO in mind, he has denied these claims.

When the poll closed 12 hours later - 57.5 percent of users said they wanted him out, equating to over 10million users.

In response to the tweet, MIT artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman said he would take the CEO job.

'You must like pain a lot,' Musk tweeted. 'One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?'

Lex responded: 'Yes. We'll turn it around.'

Another volunteer was rapper Snoop Dogg who posted a poll asking his followers if he should take over. More than 80 percent of the one million people who voted said yes.

Musk tweet again saying: 

'No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,' Musk tweeted. 'The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.'

It is not clear at this time who will replace him if he does follow through on his threat and step down as boss.

After setting the poll live Musk warned: 'As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.'

Rapper Snoop Dogg jokingly ran a poll of his own, asking his followers if he should replace Elon Musk by posing the question: 'Should I run Twitter?'

After 10 hours 81.8 percent of the one million people who voted in his poll said yes.

It was yet another dramatic moment in the rollercoaster ride that Twitter has been on since Musk completed his $44billion takeover of the social media site in October.

More than 17.5million people cast their vote in a poll asking if he should quit his job as CEO.

'Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,' the Chief Twit posted just before 6.30pm on Sunday evening.

When it closed 12 hours later at 6.20am EST the result was a resounding thumbs down for one of the world's richest men - 57.5 percent of users said they wanted him out, equating to over 10 million users.

By comparison, 42.5 per cent voted in favor of keeping him on as head of the website, the equivalent of nearly 7.5 million users.

It is not clear at this time who will replace him if he does follow through on his threat and step down as boss.

Elon Musk might be on the way out as head of Twitter after nearly 60 per cent of the site's users voted for him to be sacked.

After weeks of criticism for how he has run the website since he took it over at the end of October, the Chief Twit put a review of his performance to the people.