“Should I leave the management of Twitter?
This is the question asked overnight from Sunday to Monday by the billionaire on the social network.
promising to stick "to the results of this poll".
As a result, 57.5% of users, out of the more than 16 million participants, voted for his departure.
In an exchange with a Twitter user, Elon Musk also assured that he had no designated successor.
He also said the platform was "on the fast track to bankruptcy" in a response to computer scientist Lex Fridman, who jokingly offered to take the reins of Twitter.
" Why ?
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The poll was launched by Elon Musk shortly after the stormy entrepreneur announced that "major political changes" on the social network would systematically be subject to a vote.
This announcement came after widespread criticism of Twitter's decision announced on Sunday to ban its users from posting links to competing networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon or Truth Social.
It becomes for example prohibited to tweet: "Thank you for following me @Identifiant on Instagram", indicated the platform.
These new rules have aroused the misunderstanding of many users, including Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former boss of Twitter.
" Why ?
he soberly tweeted.
After some accounts were suspended under the new policy, including that of investor Paul Graham, Elon Musk qualified his decision.
He said that instead of targeting individual tweets, the policy would be limited to "suspending accounts only when the
primary
purpose of that account is promoting competitors."