While the picture of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s son-in-law from the World Cup final is attracting attention, the Twitter boss has published a new poll about himself.
After Elon Musk took over as CEO of Twitter in late October, there was no shortage of controversy – and reconciliations.
No later than November He reinstated Donald Trump’s accountafter users voted for the former president to return to the platform.
On Monday night he started a new vote, but this time it concerns himself.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, writes Elon Musk about the vote, which started at 00:20 and ended at 11:20 Norwegian time.
The Twitter boss promises he will do what the results show.
At the moment, the majority want him to resign.
“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it” he writes in a message on Twitter half an hour after the start of voting.
Along with Kushner
The vote comes a few hours before Sunday’s World Cup final in Qatar.
“We couldn’t have asked for a better match. Extraordinarily interpreted by Argentina and France!!!!”Musk tweeted shortly after the match was settled.
After the nerve-wracking rigors, it was finally over Argentina who escaped with the world gold – for the first time since 1986.
According to the organiser, nearly 90,000 gathered in the stands to watch the wild finale. And one of them was Musk.
In the photos taken by a photographer for the Reuters news agency, the Twitter boss is seen together with Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump.
banned journalists
Elon Musk’s public appearance in the stands in Qatar comes in the same week that a number of American media reporters were banned from Twitter.
The reason would have been that another account, also closed, continuously shared the location of Musk’s private plane.
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The information about his whereabouts must have been passed on by these journalists, the Twitter boss said.
Several of the journalists’ accounts were reopened on Saturday after Musk cast his ballot, with the majority voting to do so immediately.
