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Following Sunday’s ludicrous announcement that Twitter would begin suspending accounts for simply promoting their other social media profiles, owner and CEO Elon Musk — who was in Qatar watching the World Cup Final between Argentina and France — took to the social media app to address the fiasco.
Not only did Musk indicate that there would now be a vote ahead of major policy decisions — Musk’s reliance on Twitter polls has been odd all along considering his incessant complaining about the bots on the app — but he put up a poll that asked whether or not he should step down as the “head of Twitter.”
“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” Musk posited.
After the poll was live for about 12 hours, it officially ended with Twitter voting for Musk to step down as head of Twitter by a score of 56% to 44%. To put it in election terms, it wasn’t particularly close.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Once Musk began to realize the vote wasn’t going in his favor, he then tweeted, “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, as you might get it,” shared another link to the Twitter Files (which no one seems to care about), and then tweeted “Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it.”
As of Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, Musk has yet to further address the fact that he lost the vote nor has he laid out what the next steps will be as a presumably searches for a successor.
Musk officially acquired the social media app back in late October for a price of $44 billion. Since the purchase, Musk has done things like making the blue checkmark useless, adding a grey “Official” checkmark and a golden checkmark, and overseeing a dramatic spike in hate speech. Twitter has also reportedly stopped paying its rent and various vendors.