Twitter CEO Elon Musk Sunday launched a ballot on this social media platform concerning his future as head of the social media community, asking customers whether or not he ought to step down from the place, including that he would abide by the ballot outcomes.
As of 5:57 a.m., nearly 12 million customers had participated within the ballot, with 56.3% voting in favor of him stepping down and about 5 hours remaining earlier than the ballot closed on Monday.
The billionaire didn’t give particulars on when he would step down if the ballot outcomes stated he ought to. Replying to at least one Twitter consumer’s touch upon a attainable change in CEO, Musk stated, “There is no successor.”
Musk had instructed a Delaware court docket final month that he would cut back his time at Twitter and finally discover a new chief to run the corporate.
The ballot comes after Twitter’s Sunday coverage replace, which prohibited accounts created solely to advertise different social media corporations and content material that incorporates hyperlinks or usernames for rival platforms.
Minutes earlier than that ballot, Musk apologized and tweeted, “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes.” A couple of hours later, an official Twitter account began a separate ballot asking customers if the platform ought to have a coverage stopping accounts from promoting on different social media platforms on Twitter. The coverage replace would affect content material from social media platforms like Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, together with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post, whereas permitting cross-content posting, Twitter assist stated in a tweet.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who just lately invested within the social media platform Nostr, replied to the Twitter assist submit with one phrase: “Why?” In a reply to a different consumer posting concerning the Nostr promotion ban, Dorsey stated, “doesn’t make sense.”
Short video-platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included within the record.
Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group fashioned in 2016 to advise the social media platform on web site selections.
The coverage change follows different chaotic actions at Twitter since Musk, who can also be the CEO of Tesla, purchased the social community. He fired high administration and laid off about half of its workforce whereas seesawing how a lot to cost for the subscription service Twitter Blue.
Musk on Saturday reinstated the Twitter accounts of a number of journalists that have been suspended for a day over an issue over publishing public information concerning the billionaire’s aircraft.
His determination to raise that suspension adopted the outcomes of a Twitter ballot he had issued, during which most respondents voted for the journalists’ accounts to be restored instantly.
Government officers, advocacy teams and a number of other journalism organizations closely criticized the suspension of these accounts, with some saying that Twitter was jeopardizing press freedom.
