Elon Musk says he is leaving his future as CEO of Twitter in the hands of its users.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he asked Sunday (Dec. 18) evening. “I will abide by the results of this poll.”
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
As of 9 p.m. eastern time Sunday (Dec. 18), over 7 million people had taken part in the poll, with 57% of them voting to have Musk step down.
Soon after asking the question, the world’s one-time richest man tweeted: “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”
When another Twitter user suggested Musk had a successor lined up, the CEO quickly shot that idea down.
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive,” he wrote. “There is no successor.”
The news came the same day as Twitter was hit by a wave of user criticism over a new policy blocking accounts that promote other social media sites.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms,” the company’s Twitter support account wrote. “However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.”
This means Twitter will remove accounts designed solely to promote other social platforms and “content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post,” the support account said.
Twitter said it will allow users to cross-post content from other platforms. In addition, sharing links or usernames to social platforms not named in the above list won’t be a violation of the policy.
Promoting outside social media accounts has been common on Twitter since Musk took over the platform in October, as users worry the site will either collapse or just become unusable.
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