Elon Musk will find someone else to run Twitter, according to his poll

Yesterday Elon Musk launched one other one in every of his well-known Twitter coverage polls, this time placing his personal management on the road. “Ought to I step down as head of Twitter? I’ll abide by the outcomes of this ballot,” he tweeted. The ballot simply ended and 57.5 % of customers voted “Sure,” in comparison with 42.5 % who voted no (with 17,502,391 votes) — a decisive 15-point margin.

It stays to be seen if (and the way, and when) Musk will abide by his ballot, as he has but to subject any remark concerning the outcomes. Shortly after publishing the vote (and when it was already tilting towards “Sure”), he tweeted “because the saying goes, watch out what you want, as you would possibly get it.” Through the ballot, Musk was seen on the World Cup in Qatar with former White Home adviser Jared Kushner, live-tweeting the ultimate between France and Argentina.

The vote follows a flurry of exercise on Twitter. Yesterday, the social media website introduced a rule change prohibiting customers from linking to competing platforms, together with Fb, Instagram and Twitter rival Mastodon. That resulted within the ban of a number of customers together with Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, an early supporter of Musk’s Twitter acquisition.  

A large backlash ensued, prompting an apology from Musk. Shortly afterwards, Twitter deleted a weblog submit that had outlined the brand new coverage. In yet one more ballot yesterday, @TwitterSafety asked users whether or not it ought to “have a coverage stopping the creation of or use of present accounts for the primary function of promoting different social media platforms.” The “No” votes at the moment command a 87 % share from 224,365 customers with 14 hours remaining.