Elon Musk has not seen the smoothest ride since he took over as the CEO of Twitter. People assumed this would be the case since he tried to withdraw his acquisition offer.
He recently posted a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down from the CEO position. To no one’s surprise, 57.5% of the voters opted for the ‘Yes’ option. He replied to the tweet stating that he will abide by the results of the poll as soon he finds “someone foolish enough to take the job”. After he steps down from the position, he will only work on software and server teams.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
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 & servers teams.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2022
According to the latest news around Twitter, George Hotz known for his exploits on Apple iPhone and PlayStation 3, resigned from his Twitter internship. Hotz shared this information on his Twitter account stating that he has resigned from the company. He appreciates the opportunity but felt that he wasn’t making any impact with his work.
Resigned from Twitter today.
Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding! pic.twitter.com/Jbs9LxNB2K
— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) December 20, 2022
George Hotz was hired as an intern to work on a login popup issue and improve the search tool on Twitter in under 3 months. Hotz resigned after completing less than a month of the internship. It looks like he was having second thoughts as he too had posted a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down from his position as the intern. What is surprising is that 63.6% users voted ‘No’, but he still resigned.
Should I step down as a Twitter intern? I will abide by the results of this poll. Not a joke.
— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) December 19, 2022
He cited the reason for quitting as he said he would try fixing search or refractor codebase, but once he started reading the code, he thought “this ain’t it”. He also said amidst a “questionable commitment to free speech, existing office politics and a push for features”, there was nothing substantial he could do there.
Think many are insecure deep down and know Twitter actually could be 50 people, just not overnight, but in a year or two.
Totally fake that I said I’d fix search or refactor the codebase in 12 weeks, said I’d try, started reading code, and was like, this ain’t it.
— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) December 22, 2022
Between reheated uber eats food, a questionable commitment to free speech, existing office politics, and a push for features, I was like, there’s nothing substantial I can do here.
Elon has management skills at a level far beyond mine. I know how to run a 20 person eng team.
— George Hotz 🐀 (@realGeorgeHotz) December 22, 2022
