Elon Musk's Poll Ends with Decision that He Should Step Down from Twitter
Per Elon Musk on Twitter
Elon Musk has recently held a poll shortly after backlash received from recent major policy changes led to him reverting them. The results of the poll asked the public if he should step down as head of Twitter, and the CEO said that he would abide by the results.
Musk's poll results came back with 57.5% in favor of the Twitter CEO stepping down as head of Twitter, while only 42.5% voted that he should remain. The poll gained a whopping 17,502,391 votes, merely a fraction of its supposed 368.4 million users per data by Statista.
So far, Musk has yet to provide comments on whether he will abide by the poll results. Per Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, Twitter is charted to lose $4 billion a year after major advertisers left the platform, per CNN.
MIT AI researcher and YouTuber Lex Fridman expressed intent to take on the CEO position. Fridman said that he would be willing to take on no salary and focus all the while on engineering. To this, Musk replied with a statement that ended in a question.
Musk: "You must like pain a lot. One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?"
Fridman: "Yes. We'll turn it around."
The Twitter CEO has still to reply to Fridman's request. Musk also replied to a tweet saying he already had a successor planned out by saying that there is no successor and that the people who can actually keep Twitter alive don't want the job.
Musk has already noted in the past that he wants to reduce his involvement in Twitter as he plans to look for a new leader. With the poll results and Musk's promise to abide, who will fill in his shoes remains unknown.
Jack Dorsey, the previous CEO of Twitter, was once asked if he would accept the position of CEO of Twitter shortly after Musk's acquisition, and to this, the founder said, "nope," per BI.
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