Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk shared a poll on the social media platform on Sunday afternoon, asking users to answer if they would prefer him to remain chairman of the company or step down. Roughly 12 hours later (and assuming Twitter didn’t use administrative powers to put a thumb on the scale), the results came in. More than 17 million votes have been cast, with 57.5% of voters saying Musk should step down.
“I will stand by the results of this poll,” Musk’s initial post read, though he has yet to comment since the poll closed at 3:20 a.m. PST.
This isn’t the first time Musk has asked Twitter users to participate in a democratic yes-or-no process to influence the tech company’s decisions.
On Thursday, Musk shared a poll asking if Twitter should unsuspend “accounts that have exposed my exact real-time location” immediately or after a one-week period. The poll was referring to the suspension of the Twitter accounts of a group of journalists who have been covering Musk and the tech industry, including Ryan Mack of the New York Times, Drew Harwell of the Washington Post, Donnie O’Sullivan of CNN, Matt Bender of Mashable, Micah Lee and Tony Webster of Intercept.
While Musk appears to have followed the consensus from this poll, restoring the accounts after the majority of users voted against the suspension for a week, it remains uncertain whether the CEO will adhere to this poll.
Musk’s stint as Twitter leader was a brief but odyssey. After he took over the company in late October, he fired the senior management team and laid off nearly 50% of the company’s 7,500 employees. Another large group of workers staged an exodus after Musk issued an ultimatum to employees, demanding that they adhere to a “very tough” work environment.
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