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Elon Musk lets users vote on Twitter in a survey whether he should remain the head of the social network.
“Should I resign as head of Twitter?
I will stick to the results of this survey," he wrote on Twitter on Monday night.
The possible answers are "Yes" and "No".
After around three hours, the alternative "Yes" was ahead with 57.2 percent.
The voting should not end until Monday afternoon.
There had previously been massive criticism of Twitter: the online network had declared that it would no longer allow its users to advertise other social platforms – including Facebook, Instagram or Mastodon.
Twitter had also blocked the accounts of several prominent US journalists since Thursday.
According to those affected, the suspensions were made without warning.
A large part of the accounts has now been activated again – but the criticism of the procedure was huge.
Many users then advertised the Twitter competitor Mastodon as an alternative – but also before that.
Musk now promised in another tweet that he would also put major changes to the platform's guidelines to the vote in the future.
'I beg your pardon.
Won't happen again." He also posted a reference to the idiom: "Be careful what you wish for—because you might get it."
Musk took over Twitter in October and has been pushing his ideas through the online service ever since.
In the past, the Tesla boss had always presented himself as a champion of freedom of expression.
He finally propagated conspiracy theories on Twitter and used the platform to promote the US Republicans in his tweets.
The online service has developed into an important communication platform in recent years: governments, authorities and politicians use Twitter for their public relations work all over the world.
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