More than half of the 17.5 million consumers who answered a Twitter poll Created by a billionaire Elon Musk About if you have to to resign The company’s chief voted for that option at the close of voting on Monday.

However, neither Twitter nor Musk immediately announced whether the decision had been made Musk said he would stand by the results.. The businessman attended the World Cup finals on Sunday and may return to the United States as early as Monday.

Musk has conducted a series of non-scientific investigations into substantive matters. The social media platform is facing issues including whether to reinstate journalists it suspended from Twitter, which has been widely criticized in media circles and beyond.

He also clashed with some users on several fronts, asking Twitter users on Sunday to decide whether he should continue running the social media platform. After admitting that he made a mistake With the introduction of new speech restrictions that prohibit mentions of competing social media websites on Twitter.

The results of an unscientific online survey that lasted 12 hours showed 57.5% of the voting wanted him to goAnd the remaining 42.5% wanted to say it.

It came after the last survey Another major change in policy since Musk acquired Twitter in October. Twitter has announced that users will no longer be able to connect to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms, which the company called “banned.”

That decision created a Mix immediatelyIncluding criticism from longtime supporters of Twitter’s new owner that Musk has vowed to no longer make major policy changes without polling online users.

The move to block rivals was Musk’s latest attempt to disrupt some of his speeches, after he shut down a Twitter account last week that tracked his private jet’s flights.

of two Prohibited platforms These include mainstream websites like Facebook and Instagram, and new contenders like Mastodon, Tribel, Nostr, the Post and former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social. Twitter did not provide an explanation as to why it was blacklisting these seven websites and not ones like Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn.

One test case was that of prominent venture capitalist Paul Graham, who has praised Musk in the past but told his 1.5 million Twitter followers on Sunday that It was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” and find himself in Mastodon. His Twitter account was quickly suspended and reinstated shortly thereafter Musk has vowed to reverse the policy that was put in place a few hours ago.

Musk’s policy decisions have divided consumers. He supported free speech but suspended reporters and shut down an account that had long tracked the location of his plane, deeming it a security risk.

But he changed the policies, and then changed them again, creating a A sense of confusion on the platform About what is allowed and what is not.

Musk permanently banned the @ElonJet account on Wednesday, then changed Twitter’s rules to prohibit sharing someone’s current location without their consent. He then took aim at journalists who posted on the plane’s tracking account, which can still be seen on other social media, claiming they were releasing “basically the coordinates of the assassination”.

He used that argument to justify actions taken by Twitter last week to suspend the accounts of a number of journalists covering the social media platform and Musk, including The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and for journalists working in other publications. Many of those accounts were resurrected after an online survey of Musk.

Over the weekend, The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz became the latest journalist to be suspended. Lorenz explained that he was suspended after tweeting a message that tagged Musk and requested an interview.

Sally Busby, executive editor of The Washington Post, called it “an arbitrary suspension of another Post journalist,” further undermining Musk’s promise to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech.

“Once again, the suspension occurred without warning, process or explanation — this time when our reporter was simply seeking Musk’s comment for a story,” Buzby said. By Sunday afternoon, Lorenz’s account had been reinstated, as had the tweet he believed led to his suspension.

Musk was questioned in court on Nov. 16 about how he divides his time between Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter.. Musk was scheduled to testify in Delaware’s Chancery Court on a shareholder challenge to Musk’s potentially $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.

Musk said that he never intended to become the CEO of Tesla or to be the CEO of another company, preferring to pretend to be an engineer. Musk also said he expects Twitter’s organizational restructuring to be completed within the next week. It’s been over a month since he said that.

In public banter with Twitter followers on Sunday, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO, saying such a person would have to “like pain” to lead a company that is “on the fast track to bankruptcy.”

“No one wants the job of actually maintaining Twitter.” There is no successor,” Musk wrote on Twitter.

(Courtesy of AP/By Matt O’Brien)

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