Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking Twitter users to decide whether or not to step down as CEO and promising he will stick to the outcome. The poll is open until around 4:30pm Indian time or 3am PST and hence the result will be known soon. Musk had a turbulent few months as CEO, laying off thousands of Twitter employees and enacting massive policy changes like the botched launch of a repurposed Twitter Blue Premium subscription plan and lifting bans on several controversial figures and organizations, including the former US President President Donald Trump.
Should I step down as Twitter boss? I will stick to the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
musk has previously stated that he does not want to serve as CEO of Twitter for long, suggesting he would find someone else for the job. He is currently CEO of Tesla Inc, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink and the Musk Foundation. He recently exposed to criticism for neglecting his other jobs, particularly from prominent Tesla shareholders. Amidst reports from advertisers go the platform and a significant lost salesMusk has been focused on generate income but said bankruptcy is possible for the social networking platform.
His tenure as CEO has been disputed, beginning with a huge round from redundancies and encouraging more staff to quit or work”extremely hardcoreHours. He also made Twitter as a platform and fundamental changes acted to dismantle much of the platform Content moderation features in the name of promoting freedom of expression. He has Dispute with Apple CEO Tim Cook about ad revenue and Apple’s 30 percent cut of in-app transactions. In terms of product changes, he has suggested that the character limit on tweets could be lifted up to 4,000which fundamentally changes the purpose of the platform, and has also indicated that all users will be able to do so edit tweets after you post them.
Musk recently surveyed Twitter users about whether Donald Trump Suspended Account Recovery, although it was not clear whether any action had been taken to prevent vote-tampering. This came after promising to only make content moderation decisions Account Recovery through a “Content Moderation Council with very different viewpoints”. However, Musk later told company employees that the proposed council would be “advisory” only and he would be the final arbiter of all such decisions anyway. It is unclear whether such a council was ever established, and meanwhile, Twitter’s existing Trust and Safety Council has also now dissolved.
Most recently, Musk was suddenly in the news to forbid the accounts of several journalists covering Twitter, as well as an account that has publicly available information about the Movements of his private jet after expressly promising not to do so. Musk has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist.”
