Will users vote Musk out in his Twitter launched poll?

Elon Musk has dropped a bombshell on Twitter customers, launching a ballot with a loaded query about his future on the social media platform. 

“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he stated in a tweet on Sunday, asking them to weigh in on whether or not he ought to keep on the helm of the corporate he took over earlier this 12 months in a $44 billion deal.

“I will abide by the results of this poll, ” he added.

Musk launched the ballot after admitting he made a mistake by enacting new restrictions that banned mentions of competing social media web sites, together with longstanding websites like Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.

Upstart websites like Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post had been additionally included on Musk’s banned listing, in response to a number of news shops, with Twitter customers not capable of hyperlink to these “prohibited” platforms.

Twitter stated it will briefly droop accounts that embody the banned web site hyperlinks of their profile, together with spelling out websites like “Instagram -dot- com.”

However, different mainstream websites similar to TikTok, LinkedIn and Parler weren’t talked about on the blacklist.

Poll dependent adjustments

As of 9 p.m. EST (0200GMT), the ballot had generated almost 8.9 million responses, with the outcomes to be tallied Monday morning.

Responses had been combined.

“Vote him out,” stated person @crispylopes.

“Twitter Needs you!” stated person @cb_doge.

Due to the controversy and backlash over the brand new web site restrictions, Musk promised to not make any extra main coverage adjustments till he acquired the outcomes of the net survey.

“My apologies. Won’t happen again,” he tweeted shortly earlier than launching his 12-hour ballot.

“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it,” he added.

Source: TRTWorld and companies