Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the company has made drastic changes in recent weeks. Nearly half of Twitter’s workforce has been laid off as the company completely restructured its revenue model. Musk’s intentions included speeding up Twitter, unblocking people who may have been wrongly banned, and drastically reducing the number of spam bots on the site.
Following the recent Twitter Blue relaunch, last-minute policy changes were met with criticism from Twitter users, including a vaguely unclear policy on using Twitter to promote third-party platforms. After which Musk said he would hold polls on Twitter to decide on future policy changes.
Should we have a policy that prevents the creation or use of existing accounts for the primary purpose of advertising other social media platforms?
— Twitter Security (@TwitterSecurity) December 19, 2022
Well, Musk’s next poll asked users whether the new CEO should step down as head of Twitter. 57.5% of 17,503,391 voters said Musk should step down while the remaining 42.5% said Musk should stay.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will stick to the results of this survey.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
The signs (plus the Twitter poll) point to Musk’s imminent departure as Twitter CEO. Shares of Tesla are down more than 60% year over year as the auto industry begins another dip from the one caused by the COVID lockdowns. Meanwhile, the changes to Twitter could end up costing the platform $4 billion, according to technology analyst Dan Ives.
No one wants the work that can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022
Musk himself tweeted, “There is no successor,” in response to a Tweet that suggested Twitter already had a new CEO lined up to succeed Musk as head of Twitter. Maybe there is no successor…yet?
The controversy erupted when several journalists’ accounts were suspended following an interaction on Twitter Spaces in which Musk got into an argument between journalists and was puzzled by their questions, resulting in his abrupt departure from Spaces.
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