Elon Musk has launched a poll on Twitter to find out if he should step down from the management of Twitter. But can we trust it?
” Vox Populi vox dei! This is how Elon Musk had welcomed the result of his poll on the reinstatement of Donald Trump on Twitter, arguing that the people had spoken. It must be said that the businessman leads his boat by regularly asking the opinion of his 122 million followers. This time, it’s even more important since he puts his position as CEO of the platform in the hands of his community.
Be careful what you wish for
Barely hours after the final whistle of the Football World Cup, Elon Musk launched a poll on his social network: “ Should I retire from running Twitter? I agree to respect the results of this survey“. The post, of course, caught on quickly and with almost 400,000 retweets, it garnered over 17.5 million votes, roughly equivalent to the population of the Netherlands, Chad or Senegal.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
The answer is clear: 57.5% of participants want Elon Musk to step back. It must be said that the question comes a few hours after the mess of the new policy of Twitter concerning the promotion of competing platforms and several weeks of various difficulties for the “Techno King“. The shareholders of Tesla who see the CEO of the automaker gesticulating in all directions elsewhere have most certainly participated in the vote…
In another tweet, the latter nevertheless warns, in a threatening tone: “as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for, because you might get it“. Could it be worse?
Will Elon Musk quit Twitter?
Now that “the people have spoken“, the “voice of godwill she be heard? Will Elon Musk step down as CEO of Twitter? In reality, the question is not really of interest and already had none before the survey…
And for good reason, since last November, during a trial concerning his remuneration at Tesla, Elon Musk affirmed under oath that once the reorganization was carried out, he “reduce time spent on Twitter and find someone else to manage Twitter“. The result of this survey was already written more than a month ago. The question is rather: who?
“The question isn’t finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who would keep Twitter alive“, he explains in response to atwitter. “You will have to invest all your savings in Twitter [pour devenir CEO]which has been on the highway to join bankruptcy since May“, he adds to another.
Who to take over the boat?
The question is therefore who would be able to bet on this ominous bird that has become Twitter. According toSemafor, Elon Musk is looking for new investors to come and bring liquidity to the company, at the price paid during its privatization in October, ie 54.20 dollars per share. However, it is difficult to find investors in this maelstrom of sometimes contradictory decisions.
It is interesting to note, however, that if Elon Musk claims not to have found a successor, he was in the VIP stands of the France – Argentina match a few hours earlier in Qatar, in the company of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, and the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, Twitter’s largest investor after Musk himself.
Small thread on Jared Kushner (whom I met in 2016), who everyone assumes could replace Elon Musk at the head of Twitter. So clearly, anything is possible. But hey… who really is Jared Kushner? pic.twitter.com/Tpgesv9RdP
— Pierre Monégier (@PierreMonegier) December 19, 2022
Although it seems unlikely that Elon Musk will turn in this direction to name his next CEO, he may have been advised on this occasion to step back from the platform, explaining his poll overnight. But in the end, no matter the outcome, the second richest man in the world has already shown that he is able to change his mind very quickly…
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