The ballot is scheduled to shut round 11:20 GMT on Monday though the billionaire didn’t give particulars on when he would step down if the ballot outcomes mentioned he ought to.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I’ll abide by the outcomes of this ballot.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1671405633000
Replying to a consumer on Twitter later, Musk mentioned “There is no successor” in reference to a doable change in CEO.
Musk mentioned instructed a Delaware court docket final month that he would cut back his time at Twitter and finally discover a new chief to run the corporate.
The ballot comes after Twitter’s Sunday coverage replace, which prohibited accounts created solely for the aim of selling different social media corporations and content material that accommodates hyperlinks or usernames for rival platforms.
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Minutes earlier than the ballot, Musk apologized and tweeted “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes.”
Going ahead, there can be a vote for main coverage modifications. My apologies. Won’t occur once more.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 1671405447000
The coverage replace would impression content material from social media platforms like Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, together with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post whereas permitting cross-content posting, Twitter assist mentioned in a tweet.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who not too long ago invested in social media platform Nostr, replied to the Twitter assist publish with one phrase: “Why?”. In a reply to a different consumer posting concerning the Nostr promotion ban, Dorsey mentioned, “doesn’t make sense”.
Short video-platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included within the record.
Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group shaped in 2016 to advise the social media platform on web site choices.
The coverage change follows different chaotic actions at Twitter since Elon Musk, who can be the CEO of Tesla, purchased the social community. He fired prime administration and laid off about half of its workforce, whereas seesawing on how a lot to cost for Twitter’s subscription service Twitter Blue.
Musk additionally suspended the accounts of a number of journalists over an argument on publishing public knowledge concerning the billionaire’s airplane.
Musk reinstated the accounts after criticism from authorities officers, advocacy teams and journalism organizations from a number of elements of the globe on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform was jeopardizing press freedom.