Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform on Sunday to ask whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would respect the results of the poll.
The poll is scheduled to close at around 1120 GMT on Monday, although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down if the poll results said he should.
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In response to a Twitter user’s comment about a possible CEO change, Musk said, “There is no successor.”
Musk told a Delaware court last month that he would scale back his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the company.
The survey comes after Twitter updated its Sunday policy, which banned accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social media companies and content containing links or usernames for rival platforms.
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Should I resign as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this survey.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Minutes before the poll, Musk apologized, tweeting “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes.”
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A few hours later, Twitter started a poll asking users whether the platform should have a policy that prevents accounts from advertising other social media platforms on Twitter.
The policy update would affect content from social media platforms such as Meta Platforms’ META.O Facebook and Instagram, along with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post, while allowing cross-posting, said the Twitter support in a tweet.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently invested in social media platform Nostr, responded to Twitter’s support post with one word: “Why?”. In a response to another user posting about Nostr’s promotion ban, Dorsey said, “It doesn’t make sense.”
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Short video platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included in the list.
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Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group formed in 2016 to advise the social media platform on the site’s decisions.
The policy change follows other chaotic actions on Twitter since Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla TSLA.O, bought the social network. He fired senior management and laid off about half his staff, all while looking at how much he was charging for the Twitter Blue subscription service.
Musk also suspended the accounts of several journalists over a controversy over the publication of public data about the billionaire’s plane.
Musk reinstated the accounts after criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and several news organizations on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform endangered press freedom.
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(Reporting by Urvi Dugar, Kanjyik Ghosh and Maria Ponnezhath in Bangalore; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Sam Holmes)