Is Elon Musk about to stop as Twitter CEO??
On Sunday the billionaire put up a ballot asking customers to determine his destiny, asking, “Should I step down as head of Twitter?” and promising he would “abide by the results.” Well, the outcomes are in:
57.5% say he ought to step down! That’s about 10,063,875 votes for him to go.
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We can’t say we’re stunned by the outcomes. Just about each determination Amber Heard‘s ex has made since taking the reins of the social media large have been disastrous:
- He fired tons of workers then desperately tried to rent a bunch again, making it apparent he screwed up.
- He began charging for verification checkmarks, that means anybody with $8 might get one — resulting in “verified” accounts of companies tweeting some ridiculous issues. One pharma firm misplaced tens of millions in a inventory crash after somebody created a pretend account saying they’d be making a gift of insulin without cost.
- Then, shortly after bringing again the accounts of Kanye West, Donald Trump, and tons of white supremacists within the identify of free speech, he began suspending the accounts of journalists who have been essential of him. He blamed all of it on “doxxing” — saying anybody who even linked to the account that tracked his personal jet’s flight file was endangering him. (Though his declare of a stalker utilizing it to harass him has proved to be fairly doubtful…)
- Then as everybody began to speak about quitting and going to different websites, he BANNED the posting of hyperlinks to different social media — and even giving out your display names! Real tyrant stuff.
All in all he’s price Twitter tens of millions in income as most advertisers run for the hills. And he by no means even introduced again Vine! So yeah, not an enormous shock of us voted to do away with him.
But will he actually do it? Will he step down??
We’ve seen loads of hypothesis he’ll change his thoughts. This isn’t the primary ballot he’s posted, and on no less than one he didn’t get the end result he needed and responded by taking it down and saying he hadn’t put sufficient choices so it didn’t depend. If he was attempting to point out that extra individuals like him and his choices, it backfired quicker than you may say “Dave Chappelle standup crowd”.
But we’ve additionally been listening to this complete ballot factor is likely to be a smokescreen…
See, the more serious Musk makes himself look with this Twitter debacle, the more serious Tesla‘s stock is also doing! It makes sense confidence is dropping. We mean, after the last month would you want this guy running your company?? (We know SpaceX employees weren’t glad!) We’ve heard Tesla shareholders are demanding behind the scenes that Elon select — and step down as CEO of one of many two corporations. Is that why he’s really leaving? Did he make the selection first, then arrange the ballot?
Could the vote be Elon’s manner of saving face? One final present of being a man of the individuals?? What do YOU assume? Will Elon actually step down? If so, what’s going to occur to Twitter subsequent?? Let us know your guesses within the feedback (beneath)!
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