Elon Musk, in a poll on Twitter, asked users to vote on whether he could continue as the Executive Officer (CEO) of the platform and he will abide by the results of the poll. The poll ended after 12 hours with 17 million votes with around 42 percent of users who participated in the poll voted for Musk to remain as the CEO of the company, while 57 percent of users voted for him to step down.
Musk took over as head of the social media platform in October, which has seen multiple layoffs, announcing that he had fired employees on Twitter, and massive policy changes.
According to a tweet from Musk, all major policy changes at Twitter would be put to a vote. The apology tweet that went live after the FIFA World Cup 2022 final between Argentina and France for not implementing such a system earlier. Musk promised that policy changes will not be undertaken without a consensus.
Now that the poll is over, It’s not clear when he’s going to do it or if he’s already decided who’s going to take over. Musk previously stated that he intended to not continue as the CEO of Twitter for too long due to an overload of work in all six companies including Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and the Musk Foundation.