Elon Musk says Twitter to restrict who can vote on policy after own poll says he should go as CEO
- Twitter’s Elon Musk makes first comments after highly unscientific poll he organised and promised to honour
- A total of 57.5 per cent of more than 17 million Twitter accounts voted for him to step down as company’s boss
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Twitter users vote for Elon Musk to step down as platform’s CEO
Elon Musk has said only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to vote in future policy-related polls on the platform in his first comments since millions of users voted for him to step down as chief executive of the site.
On Sunday, the Tesla boss said he would “abide by” the result of a poll, which he created, asking Twitter users whether he should step down.
If Musk heeds the results, it would mark the end of 53 chaotic days at the helm, which has involved dismissing top executives, eliminating roughly half of its employees and spooking advertisers.
Normally a prolific user of the platform, Musk did not tweet in the immediate hours following the poll.
His silence was finally broken late Monday, when he responded “Interesting” to a suggestion from Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, that the results of the poll were skewed by fake accounts.
