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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by croon »

modeless wrote: post #12

I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…

Also he can trivially determine the outcome of said poll if he wants too. It's incredibly insincere to even pretend to use them.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by minimaxir »

modeless wrote: post #12

I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…

Last month he implied he was looking for a successor: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-new-l...

Although I'm not sure who would want to run Twitter now.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by tootie »

modeless wrote: post #12

I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…

As someone who has muted his account, it's already baked in that only his followers are voting.

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Post by zenexer »

wokwokwok wrote: post #27

Am I cynical in thinking that if you vote yes, it’s a permanent record on your Twitter account, which he can then use later to mete out anti-musk retaliation punishments? I mean, it’s not like he’s used the platform to do punish anyone who opposes him or his views before. Maybe I’m reading by too much into it.

If he’s doing such things, then it’s not a platform worth staying on anyway.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by wmf »

wokwokwok wrote: post #27

Am I cynical in thinking that if you vote yes, it’s a permanent record on your Twitter account, which he can then use later to mete out anti-musk retaliation punishments? I mean, it’s not like he’s used the platform to do punish anyone who opposes him or his views before. Maybe I’m reading by too much into it.

Oh please please Elon give me a brown check because I voted against you.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by ckastner »

In the six weeks he's been CEO, he totally gutted Twitter, and chased away who knows how many advertisers.

There's no reasonable way to right that ship.

I think he knows he's on the Titanic. I think he's looking for a pretense to get out, to stop this from taking TSLA down with it even further. TSLA is down -50% in three months, whereas the S&P500 is flat.

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Post by calcifer »

croon wrote: post #31
modeless wrote: post #12

I think he only posts polls when he believes he knows the outcome already. Yesterday he posted a poll about unsuspending the journalist accounts and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote he posted it again with different options (with the same result, which he did abide by the second time). I think this indicates he's tired of Twitter already. But he still owns it, so who will…

Also he can trivially determine the outcome of said poll if he wants too. It's incredibly insincere to even pretend to use them.

I don't think he'd dare. Everything he says internally gets leaked immediately, no way he'd order someone to mess with poll data.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by bfgoodrich »

i_dont_know_ wrote: post #17

I think if the poll says 'yes' and he does truly abide by it, I think it will show some honesty around the whole 'public town square' and 'for the people' rhetoric he has espoused. I'd be quite impressed. However, he has a history of noble intents on Twitter (eg the 'end world hunger' thing) followed by lack of follow-through, so I can imagine a scenario where the poll comes out 'yes' and he doesn't abide by the resu…

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