Elon Musk has lost his ownTwitterpoll which voted overwhelmingly to remove him as head of the social media platform. The result is the cherry on top of an unfavorable week for theTwitterCEO who has seen several controversies arise in the wake of banned journalists and sudden radical policy alterations.Musk’s week began by being booed as he joined Dave Chappelle on stage and has refused to improve since. After the ElonJet Twitter account,dedicated to tracking the location of Musk’s private jet, was permanently suspended, several journalists covering the story were accused of doxxing and also banned. Doxxing is the publication of private or identifying information about someone on the internet and is typically invoked online if someone’s address or legal name is leaked. Many did not consider the continuous updates of ElonJet to be doxxing given that it was publicly available flight data that anyone could access. Musk disagreed, and disallowed the dissemination of all flight tracking data. He later created a poll that asked Twitter users if the journalists should have their accounts reinstated now or in seven days and the former option prevailed.RELATED:Ramattra Takes Over the Overwatch 2 Twitter AccountElon Musk set up a new Twitter poll on his personal account yesterday evening that read “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” Despite an early surge of votes against, those in favor of Musk’s proposed removal proceeded to steam ahead and in the twelve hours it was subsequently active 17,502,391 votes were accumulated. 57.5% opted for “Yes” in a significant, albeit frivolous, victory for detractors of the billionaire. It is currently unknown quite exactly what Musk intends to do and even less clear who a successor would be. The absence of direction has been a staple of Musk’s tenure,drawing the ire ofValorantandLeague of Legendsprofessionalslast month when they were no longer able to alter their Twitter names following a sudden change.
Technology and political commentators initially believed that Musk would unfairly conduct the poll for him to remain as head of Twitter, but others posited that he had already planned to step down, using the poll merely to instill a sense of democratic jurisdiction for the decision. A widely denounced policy was announced yesterday, furthering turmoil at the company, which pertained to cross-promotion,banning links to other platforms considered by Twitterto be competitors including Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon.
Twitter’s instability has negatively impacted the gaming community, starting with the loss of news curator Nibellion shortly after Musk acquired the platform. Additionally,Genshin Impactplayers were warned that any who signed up using Twittermay want to secure their accounts via email, given that it was unknown what would happen in the event of a shutdown.
