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Twitter users vote to remove Elon Musk as chief executive

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I predict one of two outcomes:

1) He will claim that the poll was manipulated by bots and thus he doesn't have to respect the result.

2) He will step down and appoint a prominent far-right personality as Twitter's new CEO, in keeping with his vague threat to "be careful what you wish for" and his seemingly all-consuming need to own the libs.

I'm wondering whether this is a 'David Cameron's Brexit vote' moment or just looking for an excuse to give up without losing face

He claimed to have gotten rid of most of the bots so it wouldn't be a great excuse. Not that consistency has been the trend lately.

Where did he claim this? I have never seen him make any claims except that impressions are down on seeing spam (i.e. there are still bots but fewer of their posts are being displayed).

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16023893407635865...

I see #2 being likely, but with it being more of a title thing only and Elon Musk still being just as hands on.

Called it. :)

Dictators shield every decision with "public opinion", but forgot to mention that public opinion they write themselves.

Like what is coincidence that when Tesla stocks flops, Tesla investors want musk to get out from twitter ceo and some poll that is controlled by musk say people want him leave.

I personally don't care, but I smell shenanigans.

"It's not who votes, but who counts the vote that counts."

Often attributed to Joseph Stalin, amongst others, though Thomas Nast seems to be the actual source in 1871, with the version:

Boss Tweed: "As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it? say?"

<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/01/28/count-votes/>

What day will Jared be starting?

oh god

The what ?

Fogle? Musk announces new prison rehabilitation program by making Jared Fogle CEO of Twitter.

for those lacking context, he was photographed recently with Jared Kushner

https://archive.ph/RiKja

This is amusing and all but there is no real consequences of this I think, it's just a twitter poll.

There is a reputation consequence if he doesn't follow up on that.

There's already a reputational consequence for asking in the first place. Makes him look like a needy idiot that has no plan and can't make decisions.

I doubt it. This is Team A vs Team B. It wouldn't change a single heart. People would still like or hate him. This is what Trump meant that he could shoot a child and people wouldn't care.

So, I kind of thought that, initially, but he seems to have managed to piss off quite a lot of people who were singing his praises a month ago. I assume there's always be _some_ people who think he's a magical genius, but that belief does seem to have been maybe more mutable than I'd have expected.

He should delegate control of Twitter to a company secretary and return to the real business of launching and landing the Starship now that SpaceX can launch three rockets in thirty-six hours without him.

...just in time for people to realize that Starlink is:

a) Most of the mass SpaceX has launched to orbit

b) Not on track to ever be profitable

Seriously though, it would be more just for Elon to take the blame for what will happen when people realize he made a Space Spruce Goose, than to blame Gwynne Shotwell, who ran Falcom 9 really well.

Most likely a huge relief to Musk himself, can't imagine he's been enjoying presiding over all this past month's nonsense.

Best get back to making cars and spaceships like he's good at.

IMHO all nonsense is by his own business decisions.

Yes exactly, he's way out of his depth on this one. Can't be a very enjoyable experience for him. Would probably be humbling for anyone else, can see why he wants out though.

Twitter has showed us more about who Musk is. Can't put that cat back in the bag. I wouldn't be surprised to find him step down from all his roles and just try to run things in the background.

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