Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, posted a poll on the social media site on Sunday, asking people if they thought he should resign from his position as CEO. Musk added that he would follow the poll’s results.
Nearly 12 million users had voted as of 05:57 GMT, with 56.3 percent supporting his resignation, and Monday’s polling deadline was still five hours away.
If the poll results indicated he should step down, the billionaire did not specify when he would do so. Musk responded to a tweeter who speculated about a potential change in the CEO by saying, “There is no succession.”
Musk had already stated before a Delaware court last month that he would work less at Twitter and eventually select a new CEO.
The survey was done after Twitter changed its rules on Sunday to stop people from making accounts just to promote competing social media sites and from posting content with links to or usernames for those sites.
Musk tweeted, “Going forward, there will be a vote for big policy changes,” after apologizing just before that poll. A few hours later, a Twitter official account launched a different survey, asking people if the social media network should have a rule against accounts that promote other social media networks on its platform. According to a message from Twitter support, the policy change would affect content from social networking sites like Facebook and Instagram on Meta Platforms as well as Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post while enabling cross-content publishing.
Jack Dorsey, a former CEO of Twitter who recently made a capital investment in the social media platform Nostr, simply asked “Why” in response to the Twitter support post. Dorsey said, “This doesn’t make sense,” in response to another user who posted about the ban on Nostr promotions.
The list did not include China’s ByteDance Ltd.’s short-form video platform TikTok.
The Trust and Safety Council, which was made up of volunteers and started in 2016 to help Twitter make decisions about the site, was dissolved last week.
The chaotic acts at Twitter since Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, purchased the social network have led to the change in policy. While debating how much to charge for the subscription service Twitter Blue, he fired the company’s top executives and let approximately half of the workers go.
On Saturday, Musk brought back the Twitter accounts of a number of journalists who had been banned for a day over a dispute about the public release of information about a billionaire’s private jet.
He did a Twitter poll, and most of the people who answered said that the journalists’ accounts should be back up right away. This made him decide to lift the ban.
Government officials, advocacy groups, and a number of journalistic organizations all said that Twitter was hurting press freedom when it shut down these accounts in the first place.
