Elon Musk asked Twitter if he should step down. Twitter said 'Bye, Felicia'

While the rest of the globe was basking in the glow of an incredible final World Cup game between Argentina and France, Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk was running a poll to ask if he should remain as its head or step down. The respondents weighed in, the poll closed Monday, and Musk was voted out by 57.5% to 42.5%—a crushing defeat for the world’s second-richest man.

With more than 17 million votes, Musk claimed he would observe the results of the poll. Of course, that’s not exactly what he said Sunday, tweeting, “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”

Then adding, “There is no successor.”

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