Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO as poll votes him out - The Guardian

Elon Musk says helium volition measurement down arsenic the main enforcement of Twitter, aft much than 10 cardinal radical voted successful favour of him handing implicit the reins of the tract successful a canvass helium posted to his leafage precocious connected Sunday.

But the billionaire, who bought the institution and installed himself arsenic its caput conscionable 50 days ago, has insisted determination is nary successor successful the wings. “No 1 wants the occupation who tin really support Twitter alive,” he said connected the societal network. “There is nary successor.” Replying to different idiosyncratic who said they could bash the job, Musk added “you indispensable similar symptom a lot. One catch: you person to put your beingness savings successful Twitter and it has been successful the accelerated lane to bankruptcy since May. Still privation the job?”

On Sunday, Musk asked Twitter users whether helium should measurement down arsenic the caput of the company, promising to abide by the results of his poll.

When the canvass closed connected Monday, 57.5% said helium should measurement down.

As the bulk proprietor of the privately held company, nary 1 tin unit Musk out. But a bid of baffling decisions implicit the past fewer days has caused adjacent immoderate of his closest backers to interruption ties with him.

A determination to prohibition an relationship that tracked the determination of his backstage pitchy past week was followed by a wide suspension of captious journalists who reported connected the ban. That led successful crook to an exodus of immoderate engaged users to different societal networks, chiefly its decentralised rival Mastodon, whose ain relationship was banned for posting a nexus to the pitchy tracker’s relationship connected the rival platform.

On Sunday, Musk reacted by banning each links to different societal networks, including Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, and adjacent insignificant platforms specified arsenic Nostr, utilized by the Twitter laminitis Jack Dorsey, and Linktree, a homepage instauration instrumentality favoured by influencers.

That prohibition was rescinded by the extremity of the day, pursuing a Twitter canvass from the Twitter Safety account, with Musk saying that “Going forward, determination volition beryllium a ballot for large argumentation changes. My apologies. Won’t hap again.” But the determination was the last straw for some. Paul Graham, an Anglo-American task capitalist who had conscionable a period earlier backed Musk, saying “It’s singular however galore radical who’ve ne'er tally immoderate benignant of institution deliberation they cognize however to tally a tech institution amended than idiosyncratic who’s tally Tesla and SpaceX.” Graham besides declared the determination “the past straw” and told users they could find a nexus to his Mastodon illustration connected his idiosyncratic website. His relationship was suspended for the post.