Will Elon Musk step down as Twitter boss? Your poll will decide

There's never a dull day at Twitter with Elon Musk's takeover. In the latest, Musk has asked whether he should step down as the head of Twitter in a Twitter poll question. Even going as far as adding that he would abide by the results, whatever they may be. 

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

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

As of writing this article, there are still 8 hours left for the vote to conclude and so far, 57% have voted 'yes'. 

You must be wondering about what's happening at Twitter, in Elon Musk's head, and what's going to happen now. 

So, let's get into the details:

When Elon took over: The day Elon Musk officially became the CEO of Twitter, he fired the entire board of directors. He still remains the sole director on the board, though he had said that it was a temporary situation. 

• Now, there's no board of directors, and the CEO (Elon Musk) may step down. 

Who's going to run Twitter? Guesses are that Elon Musk has already picked out the CEO, his successor.

• In the case that Musk steps down as the CEO, he is likely to retire as the head of the chair, still influencing the decisions on the social media platform. 

But there's a catch to becoming the CEO! Oh yes, this is the difficult part. 

• You see Elon won't give Twitter to the next CEO for free; s/he has to invest their life savings into the company which "has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May".

Yes. We'll turn it around.

— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) December 18, 2022

• In other words, whoever wants to take over has to overpay for a company headed toward bankruptcy. If you forgot, the Twitter deal cost Musk $44 billion. 
• The Twitter user and Elon fanboy who offered his services for FREE, says yes. We don't know how that will turn around. 

Meanwhile, Elon Musk's team has reached out to various investors to invest in Twitter at the original price that he bought it - at $54.20 per share, even though the billionaire has said multiple times that he overpaid for Twitter. 

Who will be Elon's pick? If at all it comes down to Elon Musk choosing his successor, he's made the criteria VERY CLEAR for the job. 

Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

THAT surely makes it extremely clear, along with the price tag of course!

• Musk also said that there is not going to be any successor if he steps down, because if he can't do the job, then no one can, right? Maybe, Elon's plan was to run Twitter to the ground and below after all. 

No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022

Maybe Elon Musk won't step down, maybe he will, maybe he will pick the next CEO or he won't, Twitter's fate once again hangs in balance. The question is whether Twitter will survive Elon Musk.

Other changes at Twitter: The social media platform is indeed going through rapid changes, from its working structure to its policies. Here are a few other changes that have snagged the limelight:

• Twitter will no longer allow sharing links to Mastodon, Instagram, and several other social media platforms because they can't freely advertise their rivals. 
• Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey doesn't seem to be a fan of this decision.

doesn’t make sense

— jack (@jack) December 18, 2022

• The policy is once again as ambiguous as Elon Musk's rules. It says that users can sometimes share links to rival platforms, but they shouldn't be using Twitter to promote their other accounts. 

Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

• Twitter has also suspended the account of Indian rival platform Koo's support handle. 
• On the other hand, Koo's co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna told PTI that they will now allow their users to "migrate" all of their original tweets to their platform will just a click, over the fears of arbitrary suspensions on Twitter.

• Twitter has now removed the device labels from tweets that earlier read "Twitter for Android" and "Twitter for iPhone". Remember Musk going on a rampage against Apple's policies while using an iPhone? 

Hallelujah!! https://t.co/i2FyvXPIHO

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

• Elon Musk has unsuspended the accounts of several journalists whom he accused of doxxing, after a Twitter poll. Jack Sweeney's account tracking his private jet still remains suspended. 
• Twitter will also start incorporating block and mute prompts from Twitter Blue subscribers to downvote a tweet. 

To be clear, all user actions will factor into a NN model for a tweet and the account tweeting, including positive actions.

As user accounts develop credibility, their actions will have greater weight, similar to how @CommunityNotes works.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2022

• Other than this, Elon Musk also said "true" to a suggestion on including video and long-form text on Twitter to make the company more profitable. 

True

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022