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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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Post by cactusplant7374 »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

I voted No because this is the most interesting content to come out of Twitter in years and the spice must flow. It would've been fine if he published planned policy changes and asked the community for feedback before putting it in place. But actually making random policy changes and then rolling it back hours later is such bad form. The latest policy changes were so half-assed and dumb that it makes me wonder what's…

> No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604628761395138561?s=46...

Still playing games.

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Post by victor9000 »

quonn wrote: post #118
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

I voted No because this is the most interesting content to come out of Twitter in years and the spice must flow. It would've been fine if he published planned policy changes and asked the community for feedback before putting it in place. But actually making random policy changes and then rolling it back hours later is such bad form. The latest policy changes were so half-assed and dumb that it makes me wonder what's…

I want my car to receive updates and support in the future and keep some resell value, so I voted "Yes" ...

No clue how Tesla shareholders aren't sueing his ass already.

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Post by eyelidlessness »

DavidSJ wrote: post #130

I voted yes. I'd much rather he get back to working on electric cars and space travel and leave the tribal warfare to others.

I don’t care what he works on but I’ll welcome his departure from this brief stint making chaos for no apparent reason.

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Post by phphphphp »

tomalaci wrote: post #93

Can you even turn Twitter around at all, even if he steps down and finds a replacement? It was burning money before Elon, after buyout it is technically in even bigger loss. Advertisers and many influencers have basically fled from it. Politicians are also looking into regulating or outright ban it due to recent headlines of suspending journalists and more. I still can't help but think that 40+ billion dollars probab…

Twitter was fine before Elon, there were no existential risks to it. Everything happening to Twitter today is Elon’s doing. Any story otherwise is Elon’s preferred fiction.

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

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Post by voxelghost »

hackerfactor1 wrote: post #83

I'm expecting one of the following: (A) A sudden last minute huge influx of "No" votes. Either caused by bots or by Musk putting his finger on the scale. (Yes, I think this voting will be rigged.) (B) He already has someone in mind for running Twitter. That person will be as bad or worse than he is. (What's DJTJ doing these days?) (C) He will claim that 'liberals' and 'bots' forced a "Yes", so he'll remove those vote…

Surely he has access to enough stats and data, that he can hold the vote being relatively sure what the outcome will be before-hand.

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Post by jakear »

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…

Changing the prior poll made sense. The options were “unban immediately”, “unban in a day”, “unban in a week”, “unban in some longer a lot of time”.

The issue with this is obvious: there’s only one “you fucked up” option and the “I agree but let’s talk specifics” group is divided into three. So even though the majority of people said “I agree”, the “you fucked up” got the most votes. Classic first-past-the-post failure mode.

That said, the later poll didn’t reflect this dynamic. My suspicion is that early on in polls the answers are likely to lean pro-Elon, as the votes are more likely to to be Twitter stan’s. As time goes by word of mouth spreads news of the poll to people who aren’t as active on twitter and accordingly are less likely to be pro-elon.

It was the same with the “should I step down” poll, started out pro-Elon, flipped as popularity increased.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16036000010571857...

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Post by SicSemperUranus »

concordDance wrote: post #103
hackerfactor1 wrote: post #83

I'm expecting one of the following: (A) A sudden last minute huge influx of "No" votes. Either caused by bots or by Musk putting his finger on the scale. (Yes, I think this voting will be rigged.) (B) He already has someone in mind for running Twitter. That person will be as bad or worse than he is. (What's DJTJ doing these days?) (C) He will claim that 'liberals' and 'bots' forced a "Yes", so he'll remove those vote…

Or B but the person is noticeably better.

A bag of flour would be noticeably better.
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