Elon Musk announced his intention to resign as CEO of Twitter. The announcement came shortly after he conducted a straw poll in which 57.5% of the 17.5 million respondents voted that he should resign. The poll itself was likely a smokescreen for a decision already made, and Musk's takeover of the platform was disrupted from its inception and completed through legal action, followed by mass layoffs and ad hoc policy changes.

This was, in a sense, a move in the wrong direction. Elon Musk owns Twitter, and that is very unlikely to change in the short term. As has become clear this year, the billionaire is not afraid to make unpopular decisions and suffer the aftermath of mudslinging, but many of his changes have been hasty, poorly implemented, or withdrawn.

Musk's buyout was completed in October, and since then about half of Twitter's employees have been laid off. Major changes to his site, paid verification in the form of Twitter's blue ticks, were initiated, frozen, and recently re-initiated. Some of his decisions are simply questionable, while others are indefensible, such as suspending journalists who cover Twitter in ways he doesn't like.

No matter how uncritical he may have been personally, Musk has become as divisive a figure as the modern Internet has become: the EU has threatened to sanction Twitter over the journalist's suspension, and in the wider world Musk's actions have brought Tesla under intense scrutiny by investors Tesla Inc. under intense scrutiny by investors.

CNBC reported that Musk had been looking for a replacement for some time, to which he replied on Twitter with a laughing emoji. After the polls closed, Mask wrote: " No successor."

That's not true: MySpace Tom wants the job.

Naturally, speculation has ranged from plausible candidates for Big Tech as a whole, to Kermit the Frog, to the return of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

The big question for any candidate would be Musk's future role on the platform. He has said he will continue to run a major element of Twitter and was a very popular and prolific tweeter before this debacle began. There is also a part of his personality that clearly revels in playing the troll and annoying people, and Mask will ultimately still be in charge of the whole operation. It's like a nightmare boss scenario.

Or, to put it more plainly, this whole thing is like watching the tantrums of a 00's message board moderator.