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Elon Musk To Step Down As Twitter CEO To Focus On Tesla and SpaceX

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After a year of running social media giant, Twitter, Elon Musk announced on Wednesday his plan to step down as CEO, with a new leader set to take the reins by the end of 2023.

“I’m guessing probably towards the end of this year should be good timing to find someone else to run the company,” he told the World Government Summit conference in Dubai via video.

“I need to stabilise the organisation and make sure it’s in a healthy place and that the product roadmap is clearly laid out…. I think it should be in a stable position around the end of this year.”

Musk paid $44 billion for his favourite social media platform and exiting day-to-day operations would allow him to deflect criticism that he is neglecting his other ventures, especially electric car company Tesla.

The founder of Tesla and SpaceX has given few clues to what type of leader he is looking for. On December 21, when he first announced he planned to step down as chief executive, he said only that he would limit his own duties to software and server engineering once “someone foolish enough” had taken his place.

Since Musk took ownership of Twitter on October 27, the platform has been riven by chaos, with mass layoffs, the return of thousands of banned accounts and major advertisers fleeing.

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The app has also seen a string of technical snafus, including an incident on Sunday where tweets by Musk suddenly dominated the feeds of millions of users, even those not following the tycoon.

According to sources inside the company, as reported to the industry news website Platformer, this was because Musk was upset that a tweet by US President Joe Biden during the Super Bowl received much more engagement than his own.

In an attempt to fix the issue, engineers were called in to tinker with Twitter’s algorithm so that it pumped out more Musk tweets, sparking complaints.

In another incident last week, thousands of users reported problems using Twitter as the social network began letting paying users post tweets as long as 4,000 characters.

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