Musk posts  “shall I go or stay? Poll on Twitter

EFE News agency – Twitter owner Elon Musk launched a poll on his own account Monday, which he promised would be binding, asking users if he should continue to run the network.

The question is clear: “Should I continue to lead Twitter. I will abide by the results of this poll,” says the note posted by the billionaire, who then warns in another post: “As the proverb says, be careful what you wish for, you may end up getting it.”

Just two hours after the poll (which will be open for 12 hours), 5.17 million users voted, with a 57.8% majority in favor of Musk leaving the address.

He also tweeted another message in which he announced that “there will be a vote for major policy changes (online)”, and adds “Apologies, it will not happen again”, without clarifying what he means.

Faced with the avalanche of comments that his announcement generated, Musk clarified: “It’s not about finding a CEO, it’s about finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive”, and before the comment of a volunteer to take a head in the net, he gave her an almost dramatic response.

“You have to like pain a lot,” the millionaire replied. (And there’s) one catch: You have to invest your life savings in Twitter, as it’s been on the fast track to bankruptcy since May. Do you still want the job?”, he ironized.

And immediately afterward, he added that “nobody wants the job that would truly keep Twitter alive. There is no successor”, without this having interrupted the survey.

Musk’s landing on Twitter has been followed by numerous controversies, and the most serious have been those relating to content policy and the possibility that the network itself admits criticism of its owner.

In this sense, last Thursday Twitter suspended the accounts of various journalists or bloggers who had been critical of Musk, but the decision unleashed a huge uproar -with warnings to Musk even from the US government or the European Union-, until the point that Musk launched another poll on whether they should be reinstated, which he did in the last few hours.

The latest poll on his role in the direction of Twitter seems to indicate that he would be willing to appoint another person in charge of the network, an idea that in the last week has been expressed, for example, by executives of Tesla -the great business project of Musk that provides him with most of his fortune.