POLL: Twitter users say Elon Musk should quit as CEO
On Sunday, Twitter CEO Musk posted a poll on the social media site, asking users if they thought he should stand down as CEO. Musk also promised to follow the poll’s results.
The poll is set to end on Monday at 11:20 GMT, but the billionaire omitted to say exactly when he would resign if the results of the survey indicated that he should.
Musk responded to a tweeter who speculated about a potential change in the CEO by saying, “There is no successor”
Musk told a Delaware court last month that he would reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the company.
The survey was conducted following Twitter’s Sunday policy change, which forbade the creation of accounts purely for the purpose of promoting competing social media companies as well as the posting of content that contains links to or usernames for such sites.
Musk tweeted, “Going forward, there will be a vote for big policy changes,” after apologizing just before the poll.
A few hours later, Twitter launched a survey asking users if the social media network should have a rule against accounts that promote other social media sites on its platform.
According to a message from Twitter support, the updated policy would include content from social networking sites including Facebook and Instagram from Meta Platforms, as well as Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post. It would also permit cross-content publishing.
Jack Dorsey, a former CEO of Twitter who recently made a capital investment in the social media platform Nostr, simply asked “Why” in response to the Twitter support post. Dorsey said, “doesn’t make sense,” in response to another user who posted about the ban on Nostr promotions.
The list did not include China’s ByteDance Ltd.’s short-form video platform TikTok.
Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer body established in 2016 to provide the social media platform with recommendations on-site decisions, was abolished last week.
The tumultuous acts at Twitter since Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, purchased the social network have led to a change in policy. While debating how much to charge for the subscription service Twitter Blue, he fired the company’s top executives and let approximately half of the workers go.
POLL: Twitter users say Elon Musk should quit as CEO
Several journalists’ accounts were also suspended by Musk due to the controversy over the publication of the billionaire’s plane’s public data.
Musk restored the accounts on Friday in response to protests from lawmakers, advocacy groups, and a number of journalistic organisations, some of which claimed that the microblogging platform was endangering press freedom.
