You don’t see this every day. Correction, nobody has ever done it, but leave it to Elon Musk to go against the grain and throw something abasing the wall to see if it sticks; this time, it involved his job.
The owner of Twitter posted a poll asking if he should stay on as the CEO of Twitter.
The question was short and to the point.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.”
It’s not like he doesn’t have a couple of other side hustles to keep him busy if he left San Francisco’s home office of Twitter. I’m sure Tesla hasn’t been running quite the same since he went to take on the Twitter mess. The Boring Company probably wouldn’t mind having him around more. Not to mention SpaceX.
The votes were coming in fast. Over 4 million had cast their vote by Sunday night, with an early look at the results showing it might make sense for Musk to tell his pilot to get ready to take him back to Austin. 58% of respondents said he should step down.
By Monday morning, the trend had continued. And if Musk holds to his word, he will be updating his Linkedin page this week. Over 17 million votes were cast, with 57.5% in favor of Musk stepping down.
Seeing which way things were trending, Musk sent out another tweet with this warning.
“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”
Every day there seems to be a new controversy facing Musk on Twitter. This weekend he got heat for announcing a policy that says accounts would be banned if they use it to promote content from other social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook. Truth Social, Tribal, Nester, Post, and Mastodon.
Jack Dorsey tweeted a simple question,” why?”
That prompted Musk to clarify and say decisions like that will be decided by the masses.
“Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”
The only thing that matters now is if Musk departs as CEO, who will replace him? Snoop Dogg volunteered, but Musk legitimately is worried if you believe what he means with this tweet.
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor. The question is not finding a CEO; the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”
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