Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, has said that he will resign as Twitter CEO when he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job”.

Musk made this known on his official Twitter handle, @elonmusk, on Tuesday in response to the poll launched on Sunday to ask if he should step aside as the head of Twitter.

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“I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software and servers teams,” he said.

The billionaire had promised he was going to abide by the result of the Twitter poll. In the end, 57.5 percent of voters asked him to step aside, while 42.5 percent voted otherwise.

Musk is not likely to resign soon because “no one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive”.

The Twitter CEO, who described himself as a “free speech absolutist”, was on Thursday widely criticised for suspending journalists’ accounts after accusing them of “endangering” his family by “doxxing” or revealing sensitive information about his “real-time location”.

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Journalists whose accounts were suspended include CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, NewYork Times’ Ryan Mac and The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, who was later unsuspended after a wave of criticism from government officials and media organisations.

Since his $44 billion Twitter takeover in October, Musk has fired about half of the company’s staff, reinstated previously banned Donald Trump’s account and suffered a backlash over his content moderation policy and the $8 blue tick verification plan.