Elon Musk has published a survey on Twitter where he asks users if he should stop being the CEO of the social network. The result, according to Musk, will be “binding” and if he loses, he will leave office. Few believe that he keeps his word, but if you want to vote…
The soap opera continues… The Elon Musk and Twitter thing gives rise to daily articles and after banning journalists’ accounts, the penultimate controversy (it will not be the last) has been the announcement of a new policy that prohibited users from posting handles and links to other social networks like Instagram or its most direct rival, Mastodon. He has also banned tweets criticizing these decisions and his own CEO.
Survey, Should Elon Musk continue to lead Twitter?
A few hours ago, the billionaire launched a new survey on the social network. The question is direct, as are the answers; Yes or No. «Should I follow the head of Twitter. I will abide by the results of this poll,” he says in the tweet:
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
At the time of writing this post 56.6% of those who have answered the survey say that Musk should go home. Or at least leave the executive responsibility to someone more responsible, less controversial and without so much lurch when it comes to setting the policies for using the network.
Few believe Musk will carry out the verdict. Shortly after launching the survey, he already warned in another post: “As the proverb says, be careful what you wish for, you may end up getting it”to announce that there would be “another vote for major policy changes” on the microblogging site. He also added some “sorry, it won’t happen again”without clarifying what he was referring to.
We will see the result of the survey and if it respects it. Musk is a billionaire, he has taken Twitter off the stock markets and in principle he can do whatever he wants since he does not have to answer to investors. But there are not few voices that ask that he leave office. Musk is at the helm of big businesses like Tesla or SpaceX, but it’s not clear if he’s going to recoup the huge investment in Twitter or sink the platform due to his inexperience to run something as politically sensitive and administratively more complicated than the rest of how much he he has.
After promising “freedom of expression” and firing half of the workforce, the decisions have gone to expel journalists, block “dissidents”, prevent appointments from the rest of the social networks and also eliminate criticism against the owner. You already know that the champions of democracy tend to become the biggest dictators… We don’t expect anything good from Elon Musk at the helm of Twitter.
