Elon Musk stepping down as Twitter CEO but will still work at company after promising to abide by poll results

ELON Musk has announced that he will step down as Twitter CEO as soon as he finds "someone foolish enough to take the job."

The shock announcement comes after he posted a poll this weekend asking users whether he should continue running the company.

"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!" Musk wrote on Tuesday in the replies to the poll.

"After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."

Just two days ago, Musk asked Twitter users if they thought he should step down.

In the poll, 57.5 percent of the 17.5million respondents said he should resign as the head of Twitter.

After he acquired the software company for $44billion in October, Musk said that he did not plan on running it for long.

"I expect to reduce my time at Twitter and find somebody else to run Twitter over time,"; he said in court in November.

However, just this Monday, the online trickster said: "No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.

"There is no successor."

Musk has had a turbulent tenure as Twitter's CEO as he immediately lost the support of advertisers after taking the helm.

A self-proclaimed champion of free speech, he continues to ban users while developing his ever-changing censorship rules for the app.

Just recently, he suspended young IT student Jack Sweeney, who launched a now-deactivated Twitter account that tracked Musk's private jet and revealed his flight details.

The tech billionaire was spooked after claiming his son X was followed in LA, causing him to limit real-time "doxxing" of someone's location.