Elon Musk has said he will resign as CEO of Twitter “as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job”.
The Twitter boss said following that he would “just run the software and servers teams”.
It comes after Musk launched a poll asking users for their verdict on his tenure, saying he would “abide by the results”.
As the deadline passed on Sunday 57.5% had voted for him to leave.
The poll was an apparent attempt to draw a line under his controversial reign.
Roughly 20 minutes after he posed the question, as the ‘yes’ vote edged ahead, he added: “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”
Responding to a comment, he said: “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”
He added: “No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.”
