The poll is expected to close at around 11:20 a.m. GMT on Monday, although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down if poll results suggest he should.
Reply to user on Twitter later, musk saying “No successor” implies a possible change in the CEO.
@WallStreetSilv No one wants real work to keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1671408283000
Musk said he told a Delaware court last month that he would reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the company.
The poll comes after Twitter updated its policy on Sunday, banning accounts created solely for the purpose of advertising to other social media companies and content containing links or usernames for other social media companies. rival platform.
Minutes before the poll, Musk apologized and tweeted “In the future, there will be a vote on major policy changes.” The policy update will impact content from Meta Platforms’ social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, along with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post while enabling cross-posting, support Twitter said in a tweet.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently invested in social media platform Nostr, responded to the support post on Twitter with one word: “Why?”. In a reply to another user posting about the Nostr ad ban, Dorsey said, “makes no sense”.
Short video platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included in the list.
Last week, Twitter disbanded the Safety and Trust Council, a volunteer group formed in 2016 to advise the social media platform on website decisions.
The policy change follows other chaotic actions at Twitter since then Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, bought this social network. He’s fired senior management and laid off about half of his workforce, while weighing how much he’ll charge for Twitter’s Blue Twitter subscription service.
Musk also suspended the accounts of several journalists over the controversy over the release of public data about the billionaire’s plane.
Musk reinstated the accounts following criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and news organizations from several parts of the world on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform is in danger press freedom.
