Elon Musk launched a poll on Twitter Sunday (local time) asking if he should step down as CEO of the company.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will respect the outcome of this survey’, Moss wrote. The poll lasts twelve hours, in the first four hours almost nine million Twitter users had already voted.
For now, a small majority, nearly 58%, want Musk to step down. The result will be known in Belgium around noon. When asked by Twitter users who would become the head of social media rather than the CEO of Tesla, Musk replied: “There is no successor.” Musk was seen talking to Jared Kushner over the weekend in Qatar, sparking rumors that Donald Trump’s son-in-law may be interested in taking over Twitter.
Last month Musk told a court in the US state of Delaware that he didn’t want to spend too much time on Twitter and would eventually find a new CEO to lead the company. It’s unclear when he will step down if the poll turns out to be against him.
Policy change
Twitter introduced a policy update on Sunday that bans accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social media companies that mostly contain links or usernames from rival platforms. Hours after the policy change, Musk apologized for the new rules and announced that all major policy decisions on Twitter would now be subject to an online vote.
Sunday’s update is yet another chaotic action at the company as the social network was owned by Musk. He fired top management and fired about half of the workforce. There was also the messy launch of the Twitter Blue subscription service.
Last week, the accounts of several reporters suspended, because they published or retweeted public data about the billionaire’s plane. The accounts were reinstated after criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and various news organizations, with some believing Twitter had endangered press freedom with the move.
