Having held the position for less than two months, Elon Musk, the new CEO of Twitter, may be thinking about leaving the microblogging firm.
Sunday evening, Musk posted a poll on Twitter through his verified account asking followers to decide whether or not he should stand down as Twitter’s CEO. Musk also promised to follow the poll’s results.
Should I leave my position as Twitter’s CEO? he tweeted. The poll’s results will be followed by me.
The “Yes” campaign was leading by a margin of 56.3% to 43.7% as of Monday morning, with roughly six hours left in the poll.
The billionaire Tesla owner has been embroiled in a number of disputes on the “blue app” since late October, when he acquired Twitter and assumed control as CEO.
Musk started implementing several contentious changes to the organization’s policy and staff after purchasing the business for $44 billion from its outgoing CEO, Jack Dorsey.
Immediately after being named CEO of Twitter, he fired half of the company’s employees as well as a number of its senior executives. He also declared that remote working would no longer be permitted for the company’s surviving, fortunate employees.
After that, he issued an ultimatum to the remaining employees, telling them to work “very hard” or quit; as a result, hundreds or more of them left the company.
The verification badge on the social media platform would now be made available for purchase, according to Musk’s new announcement, which caused a stir among Twitter users.
The blue badge subscription cost that he initially proposed at $20 per month was later reduced to $8.
By executive fiat and without prior notice, he has regularly amended Twitter’s rules, and he has also banned users who disobeyed his new regulations.
After a heated exchange with the presenter of a Twitter Space in which he participated, Musk recently deactivated the Twitter Space feature from the app. However, according to the business, Space was shut down due to a minor error. Following user complaints, it has since been restored.
Musk tweeted on Sunday night that every significant policy change would now be put to a vote in what appeared to be an attempt to atone for his sudden policy changes.
There will be a vote on significant policy changes moving forward, he wrote.
