Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform on Sunday asking whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll’s results. .
The poll is due to close at around 1120GMT on Monday although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down if poll results suggest he should.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Responding to a Twitter user’s comment on a possible change in CEO, Musk said “there is no successor”.
Musk told a Delaware court last month that he would scale back his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the company.
The poll follows Twitter’s policy update on Sunday, which banned accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting content containing links or usernames to social media firms and rival platforms. has been given.
Minutes before the vote, Musk apologized and tweeted “Going forward, there will be a vote on major policy changes.”
Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
A few hours later, Twitter launched a poll asking users whether the platform should have a policy that prevents accounts from promoting other social media platforms on Twitter.
Twitter Support said in a tweet that the policy update will affect content from social media platforms such as Metaplatforms Facebook and Instagram, as well as cross-posting content to Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribal, Noster and Post. will be allowed.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently invested in social media platform Noster, responded to a Twitter support post with one word: “Why?”. In response to another user posting about the Noster Promotions ban, Dorsey said, “Doesn’t make sense”.
Short video platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included in the list.
Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group created in 2016 to advise the social media platform on site decisions.
The policy change comes after other tumultuous moves at Twitter since Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, bought the social network. It fired top management and laid off half its workforce, while looking at how much to charge for subscription service Twitter Blue.
Musk also suspended the accounts of several journalists in a dispute over publishing public data about the billionaire’s aircraft.
Musk reinstated the accounts on Friday after criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and several journalism organizations, with some saying the microblogging platform was threatening press freedom.
