We all remember when Mom told us as kids, don’t ask a question if you’re not going to like the answer. It seems that Musk’s famous former supermodel/author mother, Maye, forgot to pass that information on to him. Musk shared a poll to his Twitter account Sunday night asking his users if he should leave his position as head of the social media platform.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” Musk wrote.
The poll concluded Monday morning at 6:20 a.m. ET, with most respondents favoring him stepping down. More than 17 million users weighed in.
According to the final results of Musk’s poll, 57.5% of respondents support his stepping down while 42.5% believe he should remain Twitter’s chief executive.
“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it,” Musk wrote in a tweet Sunday night shortly after posting the poll.
Musk said he will abide by the results of the poll, so he is expected to step down in the future if he can find a replacement he deems suitable to handle the job. That’s a lot of if’s.
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk wrote on Twitter in response to a user’s suggestion he already had a replacement selected.
And while Musk would resign as Twitter CEO, he will still have ownership of the social media giant. In response to the poll, MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson said his support hinges on who Musk’s successor would be.
“Depends who you get to run it,” Anderson wrote underneath Musk’s Twitter poll.
The poll comes after Twitter announced on Sunday a controversial policy prohibiting users from promoting their accounts for other social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social. The policy and the Twitter thread announcing the rule were swiftly deleted following intense backlash from users on the platform.
Could it be that Musk is sick of the job and is looking for a face-saving way out? Will he abide by the result? We will have to wait and see.
