Elon Musk will discover another person to run Twitter, in accordance with his ballot | Engadget

Yesterday Elon Musk launched one other one among his well-known Twitter coverage polls, this time placing his personal management on the road. “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” he tweeted. The ballot simply ended and 57.5 % of customers voted “Yes,” 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 difficulty any remark concerning the outcomes. Shortly after publishing the vote (and when it was already tilting towards “Yes”), he tweeted “as the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.” In a reply to a different consumer on the identical thread, he added that “no one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.” During the ballot, Musk was seen on the World Cup in Qatar with former White House 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 Facebook, 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.  

An enormous backlash ensued, prompting an apology from Musk, who additionally tweeted that “going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes.” Then, in one more ballot yesterday, @TwitterSecurity asked users whether or not it ought to “have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms.” The “No” votes at the moment command a 87 % share from 224,365 customers with 14 hours remaining.