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Elon Musk (March 2020 in Washington)
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Around 17.5 million Twitter accounts followed Elon Musk's call.
The company's new boss wanted to know if he should step down as CEO.
And the answer was clear: About 57.5 percent of the participating users thought that Musk should step down from the top of the company.
The result of the survey has been known since Monday afternoon (German time).
And since then, Musk has done one thing above all else: remain silent.
This is unusual for the frequent Twitterer.
Especially since he had announced in his survey that he would stick to the result.
His reaction was awaited with all the more excitement.
Musk spoke up on the social network early on Tuesday morning – albeit not explicitly on the results of the survey.
Musk replied to messages from two different accounts.
On the one hand, there was the German internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom: he had written to Musk via Twitter and initially advised him not to start such polls – there were tens of thousands of “deep state” bots, all of whom would vote against him.
"Let's clean up and then start the survey again." Dotcom also posted a kissing emoji and an encouraging one: "The majority believes in you."
In another message, Dotcom wrote that he hoped Musk started the survey to attract those fake accounts.
"A little good data mining and he could do them all at once."
Musk responded with one word: "Interesting."
The Twitter boss also responded to the message from another account.
There it was suggested that only users with a paid subscription to Twitter Blue could take part in surveys on the social network.
To which Musk replied, "Good point.
Twitter will make this change.” It's unclear whether he meant to imply that he'd be rerunning the survey about his chief post.
Shortly after taking over the company, Musk decided that the blue ticks should no longer only identify the profiles of prominent users as authentic.
All subscribers to the "Twitter Blue" paid subscription offered in some countries now also have a blue tick on their profile.
Musk took over Twitter for $44 billion at the end of October and immediately fired the executive floor.
A week later, he fired around half of the 7,500 employees.
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