More than half of the 17.5 million users who responded twitter poll made by billionaire Elon Musk Voting on whether he should step down as head of the company is pending until Monday.
there was no immediate announcement from Twitter, or Musk, about whether that would happen, though Musk said he would follow up on the results. Kasturi attended the World Cup final on Sunday and could be on her way back to the US early Monday.
Musk has made several unscientific choices on important issues facing the social media platform, including reinstating journalists he had suspended from Twitter, which has been widely criticized in media circles and outside.
Musk has clashed with some users on a number of fronts and on Sunday, he asked Twitter users to decide whether he should remain in charge of the social media platform after admitting that he plans to introduce new speech restrictions. erred in banning mentions of rival social media websites. Twitter.
The results of the 12-hour unscientific online poll showed that 57.5 percent of those polled wanted him to leave, while the remaining 42.5 percent wanted him to stay.
The latest survey marks another significant policy change since Musk acquired Twitter in October. Twitter had announced that users would no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms that the company said were “prohibited”.
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That decision drew immediate blowback, including criticism from previous defenders of Twitter’s new owner, that Musk had promised not to make any more major policy changes without an online survey of users.
The move to block competitors was the latest attempt to crack down on some of Musk’s speeches after he shut down a Twitter account that tracked the flights of his private jet last week.
Banned platforms include mainstream websites such as Facebook and Instagram, and new rivals Mastodon, Tribal, Nostra, the Post and former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social. Twitter offered no explanation as to why those seven websites were included in the blacklist, but not others like Parlour, TikTok or LinkedIn.
One test case was prominent venture capitalist Paul Graham, who has praised Musk in the past but told his 1.5 million Twitter followers on Sunday that this was the “last straw” and to find him on Mastodon. His Twitter account was immediately suspended, and was soon restored as Musk promised to reverse the policy that had been implemented just hours earlier.
Musk’s policy decisions have divided users. He has advocated free speech, but has suspended reporters and shut down a longtime account that tracked the whereabouts of his jets, calling it a security risk.
But they have changed the policies, and then changed them again, creating 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 another person’s current location without their consent. He then hit out at journalists who were writing about the jet-tracking account, which can still be found on other social media sites, alleging that they were “basically broadcasting the coordinates of the assassination”. Were.
He used the social media platform and the accounts of several journalists who covered Musk to justify Twitter’s moves last week to justify, among them those who work for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications. Journalists involved. Many of those accounts were restored following an online poll by Musk.
Then, over the weekend, The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz became the latest journalist to be temporarily banned. She said she was suspended after posting a message on Twitter tagging Musk and requesting an interview.
Sally Buzby, 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.
“Again, the suspension happened without warning, process or explanation – this time our reporter only sought comment from Musk for a story,” Buzby said. As of Sunday afternoon, Lorenz’s account had been restored, as she thought her tweet had triggered her suspension.
Musk was questioned in court on November 16 about how he splits his time between Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter. Musk was to testify in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over a shareholder challenge to Musk’s potential $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.
Musk stated that he never intended to become the CEO of Tesla, and that he did not want to become the CEO of another company, preferring instead to see himself as an engineer. Musk also said that he expected Twitter’s organizational restructuring to be completed in the next week. It’s been more than a month since they talked.
In a public joke with Twitter followers on Sunday, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO and said that person should “like a lot of pain” to steer a company “in the fast lane to bankruptcy”. “.
“Nobody wants the job that can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted.
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