- "As the proverb says, be careful what you wish for, you may end up getting it," warned the tycoon.

Elon Musk.

Elon Musk loses binding poll on whether to continue running Twitter: "I will abide by the results"

The magnate Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, launched a poll on Monday from his own account, which he promised will be binding, to ask users if he should continue to run the network.

The question is clear: "Should I continue to lead Twitter. I will abide by the results of this poll," says the note posted by the billionaire, who then warns in another post: "As the proverb says, be careful what you wish for, that you can end up getting it".

After twelve hours of voting and more than 17.5 million user votes, a majority of 57.5% has chosen in favor of Musk leaving the address.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

He also tweeted another message announcing that "there will be a vote for major (online) policy changes," adding "Apologies, it won't happen again," without clarifying what he meant.

Faced with the avalanche of comments that his announcement generated, Musk clarified: "It's not about finding a CEO, it's about finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive", and before the comment of a volunteer to take the head in the net, he gave her an almost dramatic response.

"You have to like pain a lot," the millionaire replied. ", he ironized.

And immediately afterward, he added that "nobody wants the job that would truly keep Twitter alive. There is no successor", without having interrupted the poll.

Musk's landing on Twitter has been followed by numerous controversies, and the most serious have been those relating to content policy and the possibility that the network itself admits criticism of its owner.

In this sense, last Thursday Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists or bloggers who had been critical of Musk, but the decision unleashed an enormous amount of dust -with warnings to Musk even from the US government or the European Union-, until the point that Musk launched another poll on whether they should be reinstated, which he did in the last few hours.

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