Elon Musk polls Twitter users if he should step down as CEO
Posted December 18, 2022 7:48 pm.
Last Updated December 19, 2022 8:43 am.
Elon Musk is asking Twitter’s users to decide if he should stay in charge of the social media platform after acknowledging he made a mistake Sunday in launching new speech restrictions that sought to ban mentions of rival social media platforms.
In yet another drastic policy change, Twitter announced that users will no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms the company described as “prohibited.”
But the move generated so much immediate criticism, including from past defenders of Twitter’s new billionaire owner, that Musk promised not to make any more major policy changes without an online survey of users.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
“My apologies. Won’t happen again,” Musk tweeted before launching a new 12-hour poll asking if he should step down as head of Twitter. “I will abide by the results of this poll.”
After publishing the Twitter poll, Musk tweeted a follow-up: “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”
The incident was Musk’s latest attempt to crack down on certain speech after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet.
