After users voted that Elon Musk should step down as CEO of Twitter, he is now announcing his resignation.
– I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone stupid enough to accept the job! After that, I will only lead the software and server teams, Elon Musk wrote on his Twitter account Wednesday night Norwegian time.
On Monday night, Elon Musk launched a poll about himself on Twitter.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he captioned the vote.
“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, because you might get it,” she wrote in a Twitter message half an hour later.
57.5% voted yes for Musk to step down as chief, while 42.5% voted no, the results showed.
Musk promised to follow up on the result of the vote, but announced just two days later that he would step down.
Changes notified on vote
Night until Tuesday Norwegian time, the hitherto silent boss on the platform tweeted, where he announced new rules for voting.
In one thread, one user suggested that only paying subscribers with a blue check next to their username should be able to vote on leadership and direction.
– We subscribers are interested in this issue, wrote @Unfilteredboss1.
– Good point. That change that Twitter will introduce was CEO Elon Musk’s response.
But Musk did not comment on whether he would step down.
Journalists suspended
This isn’t Musk’s first Twitter vote.
On Thursday, Twitter was suspended the stories of journalists by several American media outlets covering the company and Musk.
Among others, journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN were banned from the platform. The EU warned Musk on Friday that he could be subject to sanctions.
Musk later explained that reporters were banned because he believed they shared his real-time location and that it was a security breach.
It released a public poll on Friday, in which users could vote on whether the suspension should be lifted “now” or “in seven days.”
Over 3.5 million users responded to the survey, with over half responding “now”.
– People spoke. Users who shared my real-time location will see the suspension lifted now, Musk wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
Since Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, there has been a storm surrounding the platform and the man who also leads electric car maker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX.
Many have threatened to quit Twitter after Musk took over, and many of them have taken the threats seriously. In addition to bans that many have perceived as arbitrary, sudden changes in terms and rules – and equally sudden reversals of some of the changes – have overtaken the predictability of the platform.
