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Billionaire Elon Musk is “actively looking” for a new CEO at Twitter after users voted for him to step down from running the social media site, according to a report Tuesday.
Musk, who has served as Twitter CEO since buying the company for $44 billion in late October, is looking at potential candidates to be his permanent successor, CNBC’s David Faber reported, citing unnamed sources.
“No big surprise here — Musk is actively looking for a new CEO of Twitter. It doesn’t take a genius to tell you that,” Faber said on “Squawk Box” on Tuesday morning. “As we’ve seen from his previous polls, oftentimes he sort of already knows the answer before he actually asks people to participate in said poll.”
“From everything I have heard, he has been actively looking, asking, trying to figure out who the candidate pool might actually be,” Faber added.
On Sunday, Musk asked his 120 million followers if he should “step down as head of Twitter” and promised to “abide by the results of this poll.
