Elon Musk posted a ballot on Sunday asking Twitter customers if he ought to step down as CEO of the social media firm, and stated he would adhere to the end result.
Musk appointed himself CEO lower than two months in the past, instantly after he finalized his $44 billion takeover of Twitter on the finish of October. He promptly dissolved its board of administrators and laid off roughly half the corporate’s employees.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” he tweeted Sunday night, giving customers the choice to vote “Yes” or “No.”
Within two hours, greater than 5.Eight million customers had voted, with 57.8% voting sure and 42.2% voting no.
Following Musk’s choice to fireside high executives and appoint himself CEO in October, Bloomberg reported that the billionaire doubtless deliberate to serve within the position on an interim foundation.
In the replies to the tweet, Musk stated he had not chosen a alternative, after a person steered he had already chosen one.
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted.
The move is consistent with Musk’s erratic management of the corporate to date. He has repeatedly made coverage selections on obvious private whims, together with in latest days when he out of the blue suspended a number of distinguished tech journalists who had reported on him.
Musk claimed they’d doxxed him by posting hyperlinks to a web site that tracks his flights.
Last month, he restored the Twitter accounts of a number of banned customers with out rationalization, after initially pledging to kind a content material moderation council to make selections on reactivating suspended accounts. He reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account after posting a sure or no ballot on whether or not he ought to accomplish that.
