Self inflicted idiocy. |
Over the weekend, Twitter CEO and online troll Elon Musk posted if he should step down from the social media company he bought over two months ago. He puts up an unscientific poll and an overwhelming majority said he should.
I seriously doubt that he will resign.
Nearly 20 million people have voted and they feel that Musk has jeopardized the integrity of Twitter.
He is having too much fun ruining companies like Twitter and Tesla.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Musk was also spotted at the World Cup finals. He got to see Argentina defeat France to take home their first victory. So while in Qatar, he was spotted with former White House advisor Jared Kushner.
Kushner is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Washed Up 45. Is also raised questions to why Musk and Kushner were in the country. They were not only watching the World Cup but I am guessing they need loans from the Qatari and Saudi billionaires.
In a few weeks, we will close out 2022 and begin 2023. Musk plans on encouraging the former president to return to Twitter. Washed Up 45 has not tweeted since his account was reinstated, though Musk has reintroduced a handful of far right and some leftists back to the platform.
The poll came as Musk faced growing criticism after Twitter briefly banned users from promoting accounts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social before the prohibition vanished from its policy page.
The restrictive policy had come after after many users started posting links to other social media accounts as they looked to depart Twitter following Musk’s Oct. 27 takeover, which has since seen the reinstatement of some far-right accounts, the suspension of journalists and mass layoffs.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms,” Twitter support had tweeted Sunday. “However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.”
After facing widespread criticism following the announcement, Musk appeared to contradict the policy, saying: “Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.”
By Sunday evening, the platform’s page with the new policy language had been replaced with a “page not found” 404 heading, indicating deleted or moved content. References to the prohibition on outside social media also disappeared from Twitter Support’s feed Sunday night without explanation.
The policy had been ridiculed as ironic, coming from a CEO who had vowed to be a "free speech absolutist."
It attracted such swift criticism, including from past defenders of Musk's leadership, that the billionaire vowed not to make further policy changes without an online survey of Twitter users.
"My apologies. Won't happen again," he tweeted, before launching his new poll asking whether he should step down.
In addition to widespread layoffs, Twitter has also faced scrutiny after botching the introduction of paid verification for users and more recently, suspending half a dozen journalists. Their accounts were reinstated after Twitter users voted in favor of doing so in an earlier poll posted by Musk