Elon Musk Promises to Step-down as Twitter Head if he Loses Poll, Makes U-turn After Losing

Elon Musk recently floated a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down as Twitter head, and promised that he would abide by the results

Elon Musk, business magnate and investor, seems to have made a U-turn after he lost his own poll on Twitter. Musk had floated a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down, and said that he would abide by the results. “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” tweeted Musk. Interestingly, 57.5 percent of the respondents of the poll voted in favour of Musk stepping down as Twitter chief.

However, 42.5 percent of the 17,502,391 respondents wanted him to continue as Twitter head. Nevertheless, it does not seem like Musk will step down anytime soon. His tweets post the poll indicate that he is pinning the blame for losing it on bots. Musk replied “interesting” to a tweet from a user called Wall Street Silver, who said: “Very interesting when you compared the number of votes versus the number of likes on the tweets. Did bots brigade the Elon poll yesterday?”

“I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots. The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go,” tweeted Kim Dotcome in favor of Musk. “Hey Elon Musk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy number 1. They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you,” he added. He also responded to a tweet saying only blue tick users should be allowed to vote. 

In fact, it is not the first time that Elon Musk has floated polls on Twitter. Last year, he asked his followers if he should sell 10 percent of his Tesla stocks. “Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this? I will abide by the results of this poll, whichever way it goes,” he had asked. He later also claimed that he had sold off 10 percent of Tesla stocks as Twitter told him to.