"Yes" is now in the lead, and will likely stay in the lead given the trajectory.
STOP THE COUNT!
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
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#42I 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.
Interesting. Maybe he found the CEO he wants earlier than expected. That would make sense. If the poll says so he can step down immediately, and if not then he can still step down later whenever he feels like. Of course he still maintains ultimate control either way but he can go back to focusing on SpaceX and Tesla more, either immediately or maybe in a few months.
So in this case he may not believe he knows the outcome ahead of time, but it doesn't matter because the outcome is the same either way. Only the timing is different.
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#43I 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…
not too long ago he claimed that spam and bot accounts make up an estimated 11% of Twitter’s total user base, I don't think that has changed much so I agree these polls are simply a farce.
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#44Am 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.
I think he very much expects people to vote yes.
He clearly has no idea how to run Twitter and this gives him a way to get out of this disaster while still somewhat saving face.
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#45Everyone is voting "no" just to keep watching the trainwreck
There's no option "No you don't need to step down, just start running it well please, letting people say whatever they want".
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like it would be the smart move to hire someone with expertise in social media, give them his high-level vision, and let them implement the details. The last few weeks of Elon's micromanagement have been a complete shitshow.
Everyone with expertise in social media hates Elon's high-level vision.
Depends what we mean by his high-level vision. If it's the "everything app", I'd say that vision is not bad by default, but the details matter.
But if his high-level vision is described by his actions so far... oh my God, yeah, no one would wanna touch that with a thousand mile pole.
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#47I 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…
It does seem so, and hilariously, it appears to be backfiring.
"As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it"
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#48This has had over 250k votes in the first three minutes. Thats insane! I can only imagine the infrastructure for this...
Yes, and apparently I was the first person who voted. https://mastodon.weinzierlweb.com/@ludwig/109537268355917100
I saw the same thing when I voted when the post was 14 seconds old. I think it's just a cache thing and a great many people saw they were "first".
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#49I 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…
He can likely manipulate the results on the backend anyway. This is a real cowardly way to make decisions, by pretending they come from someone else.
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#50Everybody, vote NO, Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter is too much fun, let's not end it...