Twitter users on Monday, 19th December voted to remove CEO Elon Musk in an online poll he organised and promised to honour, just weeks after he took over as head of Twitter.
He asked users “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” and 57.5 percent of more than 17 million accounts said he should go, though Musk is yet to respond to the result.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he tweeted, asking the site’s users to click yes or no.
While the poll was live, Musk engaged followers, saying he did not have a replacement lined up.
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” he said.
Making a “fun suggestion” to Musk, MIT research scientist Lex Fridman offered to run the platform for a bit for no salary.
In a downbeat response, Musk said Twitter was “in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”
“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?” Musk asked.
The unpredictable billionaire posted the poll shortly after apparently acknowledging he had made a mistake banning Twitter users from promoting their accounts on rival social media platforms.
“Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again,” he tweeted.