big story. Elon musk has asked users to vote
as to whether or not he should step down as
the head of twitter must tweeting last night asking twitter
users to vote and said, quote, I will
abide by the results of this poll. Now,
musk has led twitter for a little over seven weeks
that after buying the social media platform for 44 billion
in october and that poll closing just earlier this morning
, 57% of the respondents saying yes, he should
step down Tesla shareholders, seemingly in favor of Elon
musk's departure from twitter. Look at where the stock
is at pre market of about 2.3%. Premarket.
At one point it was up a little over 5%
. So you obviously have to think Tesla benefits if
Elon musk leaves twitter. Look, he has put
a lot of big things a ceo to a pole
, a public poll reinstating former president trump's account.
He abided by those results when those journalists were banned
on the platform last week, he put that Back
up to a pole if they should be reinstated and
he abided by that. This one is seemingly much
bigger question than those two other stories. So does
he actually abide by these results I think is the
big question he hasn't tweeted since the polls closed.
Yeah, yeah, Baker. I mean it's interesting
that he put so much credence into these polls as
we've discussed before. There's a lot of reporting on
the fact that many of these polls are pretty easy
to scam. There's a lot of bots weighing in
on this particular one, there were 17.5 million and
users who weighed in on it. And I also
should mention that looking at some of his past polls
, it's not exactly, you know, objective language
here when he was voting whether to reinstate those journalists
, the language he used with something like should I
put people back on the platform or tweeted out my
exact location and put my family in danger? People
still voted to reinstate those says though he will abide
by this pole and and as a result of that
, who then if he let's just say hypothetically he
does leave, who then takes this role and who
does he sort of go after the sort of head
twitter. I mean obviously Jack Dorsey, he's friends
with Jack Dorsey has said many times he has no
plans to come back to the social media platform.
Does he basically pluck somebody from another social media platform
to run this? Does it come from Tesla?
Because we've seen this sort of Hybrid Tesla SpaceX workforce
with twitter people as well, I mean I think
and it's whoever does is going to have a big
mess to clean up, obviously there's been like an
exodus of employees, there's been a lot of misinformation
hate speech on the platform and he's gonna have to
re instill confidence from those advertisers and on top of
that, whoever he chooses the ceo if again if
he does leave is probably going to be of the
same mindset of where he wants to take twitter in
terms of where everything is going because he's probably not
going to choose somebody that is very different in terms
of how his mindset is with the company agreed baker
. Now this poll also coming hours after twitter didn't
state a controversial new rule, but now the social
media company is walking that roll back on sunday night
twitter support posted that they would remove quote content that
contains links or user names for the following platforms facebook
instagram mastered on truth Social triple. No stir and
post. Just hours later the post and the update
to Twitter's policy page were both deleted. Elon musk
did apologize for the abrupt change and said that he'd
hold a twitter poll again for any other major changes
before they go into effect, baker, who knew
twitter polls were that big of a deal. But
apparently they are