Twitter
users have voted in favour of Elon Musk stepping down as the platform’s
chief executive after the billionaire ran a poll on his future.
A total of 57.5% voted “yes” after Mr Musk asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down.
Mr Musk, who bought Twitter for $44bn (£36bn), said before the poll closed that he would abide by the result.
The technology tycoon, who also runs Tesla and Space X, has faced much criticism since taking over the site.
Mr
Musk is yet to comment since the poll closed. Even if he were to resign
as chief executive, he would remain as Twitter’s owner.
More than 17.5 million users voted in his poll on Monday…
… A
former Twitter member of staff, who left the company recently, told the
BBC that Mr Musk was “showing himself to be the incompetent fool we all
knew he was”.
Speaking
on condition of anonymity, they added: “His investors are surely
looking at this now and questioning whether he was the right horse to
back.“I
imagine he’s getting pressure from investors to step down and is using
this poll to make it look like he’s following the will of the people
instead of the will of those paying his bills." …
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