Elon Musk He will not resign as CEO Twitter. At least for now. This Sunday, the businessman published a survey so that those who decide their future at the head of the company are platform users. More than 17.5 million, 57.5% of all respondents voted to leave. And although he promised to abide by the outcome, that was not the case.
The controversial businessman spent several hours without tweeting after he lost the poll he posted on his profile. In the end, he broke his silence not to keep his word, but to announce a change in the social network’s policies. “Subscribers to Twitter Blue (the platform’s payment plan) should be the only ones who can vote in polls about politics.suggested by a user. “Good point. Twitter will make that change,” Musk replied.
last October, Musk has formalized the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter after months of trying to get out of the deal reached in April. With the previous management of the company. No user who is the majority owner of a private company, resignation from Musk. Aware of this, the world’s second richest man has chosen to ignore the promises and implement a change that will help only paying users decide the future of the bluebird’s social network.
controversial changes
Despite Twitter’s control of the reins, a series of controversial decisions has led even Musk’s closest supporters to criticize the company’s management. Recently, the boss announced that certain accounts that use public information to monitor private planes of celebrities, including himself, have been banned. It also chose to block journalists reporting without notice.
On Sunday, it suddenly banned the posting of links to competing social networks such as: TikTok, instagram anyone Mastodon. This ban was withdrawn at the end of the day. Musk apologized, saying “big political changes will be voted on in the future”. Now that he saw that this might be against his interests, he chose to limit voting to only those who got through the box first.