I'm really torn as to which way to vote:

If I vote "Remain", I'll enjoy watching Elon being as crazy as ever, seeTwitter go down and laugh at Elon and his accomplices for having wasted $44bn.

If I vote "Leave", there's a chance that Twitter might survive. (Yeah, I know it's full of twits, but there are small corners of sanity in there)

I should add, that I don't support the bullying, coersion and shit working conditions Elon's imposed on the remaining workers.

It doesn't matter, there is no world in which Musk doesn't rig the vote if it doesn't go his way. The shitshow will continue unabated.

Whaddayaknow, those Bots come in handy after all...

Why would you need bots when you can simply create fake votes

What I mean is the previous votes he’s run I suspected were simply a way to catch bot accounts who were being tasked to vote by the farmers running them.

As it stands now, it's 61% for Musk to step down with 9'052'134'921 votes cast.

I'm reminded of the Futurama Election Episode.

"It's been a long day of voting Morbo, but the Human voting is closed at last. And now it's time for the robot vote. (2 seconds later) And the Robot Vote is closed. And the Winner is Elon!"...

(I'm paraphrasing slightly)...

Or as mentioned in the column, Mastertwittier says he'll step down if voted so, but when? After I'm long gone and pushing up daisies?

The biggest advantage of Musk running Twitter into the ground is that it makes him too busy to do more damage to SpaceX and Tesla.

The biggest advantage of Musk running Twitter into the ground is that it makes him too busy to do more damage to SpaceX and Tesla.

That's the problem with Musk. Great ambition, great showmanship, but often a failure to deliver. Tesla's investors seem to be getting a bit nervous about the antics, and Tesla's share price. Plus they've finally 'delivered' the CyberSemi, but haven't delivered some fundamental metrics. Like how much it can haul. Thunderf00t's done another video questioning some of the benefits. Initial presentations claimed significant cost savings over diesel semis, but reality has intervened and due to higher electricity prices, the economics don't look great.

But Musk is spreading himself too thin with all his ventures. Don't forget he has other companies, like Neuralink, currently under investigation for animal welfare concerns. This poll is also a bit of showmanship. When he was buying Twitter, he said he'd appoint a CEO, so stepping down isn't exactly news, and he must have had candidates in mind for the position. I'm guessing someone's accepted, so now he can get some PR for 'listening to the will of the people'.

Or just analyse the voting patterns and maybe stomp on some more bots.

IMHO, he looked at Trump and thought... Yep, I like that.

So he has become a grifter or as my ma used to say, 'all mouth and no trousers and keep a firm grip on your purse'.

I think that he should step down from being CEO of Tesla. The Tesla stock is in the shit hole. If he resigns then it will start to recover and he'll have enough money to buy GM... The Tesla cultists are already talking about it.

The only saving grace for the USA, is that Trump Mk 2.1 (Ron Desanctimonious is Mr 2.0) is that Lord Elon of Skum can't become POTUS.

I can't vote, I'm on a little Twitter holiday at the moment,... I don't think it was for my joke about Andrew Tate (I said I'd like to punch him on the chin, but he doesn't have one), I think it was simply referring to Elon as a shithead.

Why brother to vote when he's a documented compulsive liar, starting from the earliest lie [1]about his science degree .

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368

This feels like Musk's attempt at a "Get out of Jail free" card.

He appoints someone else to lead the company, and when it inevitably fails (probably due to Musk's interfering), he can point to the new CEO and say "See it didnt fail under my watch, it would have survived if I'd stayed on, but people didnt want me to stay...".

He's bitten off way more than he can chew, is realising it's going to cost him a lot more to make Twitter a viable concern (and with no chance to pay off the debt he saddled it with). He needs to rehire a ton of the Engineers he sacked, just to stop it falling over, but none of them will come back whilst he's in command, and if even they were willing to come back, they'll cost twice what they cost previously. So if he jumps ship now, and leaves the lead weight around some other poor saps neck, then when it all sinks beneath the waves, he can claim that everything was fine whilst he was on board...

First class Management Escape techniques in practice...

But just think all you Tesla shareholders, now Musk can come back, and I'm sure he'll be bringing all of his newly learned best management practices on Tesla too! I bet you're excited!

Came here to say something similar - though I would expand it to say that if the poll says he should stay, his argument can then be "I don't know why Twitter failed; I was only doing what people wanted", so either way he absolves himself of responsibility.

Personally - having never had a Twitter account and actively avoiding it wherever possible - I'd be quite happy if he stayed where he is, carried on making seemingly random decisions and ran Twitter into the ground. It and the other social media "big players", for all their many minor positives, have been major causes of some of the worst cases of uncritical "groupthink" among the masses we've seen since that term was invented.

After he's demolished Twitter, maybe Instagram could use his services.

M.

A colleague once floated the notion that he should advertise himself as available to take on these high-paying CEO jobs at failing companies on the understanding that he would take all the blame for the failing and be duly sacked when necessary,

> He appoints someone else to lead the company

Well he can probably do that, but I doubt that this would shift the public perception much at this point.

Typical Musk modus operandi,.. take Tesla stating 'autopilot was not engaged at the time of the crash',... well, yeah, but it was in the seconds before it aimed itself at the semi. So Musk stepping down from Twitter would be like a Tesla disengaging autopilot just as it was poised to crash.

Given the grumpy faces of those investors he was meeting at the world cup final.

He's been told to step down or they'll call in their debts, this is the face saving.

Didn't Musk already say he wasn't going to stay as head of twitter long-term?

Indeed he did.

It's just that the term is getting shorter, apparently.

"Twitter is a home to invective and hyperbole. No reasonable person would consider Musk's tweets a source of factual information."

I does not matter what Musk says or even what contracts he signs. Look at what he does instead.

Even if Elon completely bends the knee, leaving for new haunts would have sent the message that no social media site owner is more powerful than the users collectively. Now, users with problems are saying it's better to associate with Musk as long as concessions are made than to be ready to move on. The fallout from this will reach every social media site with ill intentioned management.

He's been looking for a new CEO for Twitter for over a month at least (well documented by WSJ, etc.) 'Running' Twitter into the ground is more work than he likes to do. This is time he could spend shitposting and smoking weed!

So now he puts out a sham poll, and at the end he can be pretending to be bowing to the will of the plebiscite. Then he sits back and lets his patsy try to save the company he's already nearly destroyed, and as he's still the owner he gets to meddle as much as he wants (You get a ban! You get a ban! You all get a ban!) and blame it on his patsy, and of course the patsy takes the blame for the complete wreck he's left it in.

Where would you even find a sucker to be his patsy, you might ask? But there's always someone willing to be a C**, and he's got plenty of right wing sycophant twats who still love him and would be salivating at running one of his companies.

Hey, for $5 million a year, 1 year's salary in advance, and a guaranteed 1 year's salary golden parachute, I'll happily take the Patsy role and try and keep Twitter alive.

Since whatever CEO comes in, will probably be on similar terms, would you really expect it to be hard to find candidates? Perhaps finding good candidates, who are actually interested in making Twitter a good company, profitable and nice to work for. Well, yeah those are probably hard to find at the moment, but finding someone/anyone to take over as a Patsy will not be a problem. It's all about the "incentive"...

I have no issue with him stepping aside (let's be real, it probably won't be down).

What I want to see (and I've said this before) is that everyone be treated equally, transparently and consistently - no vague, arbitrary rules. That is what most people ultimately want, I think. Who wants a world where an activist or journalist can doxx someone, get away with it because they are part of some special group or club, then when you do it (which you shoudn't), you get the banhammer?

No-one wants a platform where anyone can dox anyone else, but we also don't want one where journalists are banned for tweeting information that is publicly available. It's not like he banned the multinational corporations for provided the information, or the Swiss government for operating the OpenSky tracker.

It’s very generous of him!

It's a bit like having jettisoned most of the fuel, set the engines on fire, and steered the plane towards a mountain, Captain Musk says "I'm done with this, who wants to pilot this shitheap of a plane?". All his favourite passengers think he's so cool though.

How valid is a poll of only those who happen to follow him?

Classically not-thought-through process on his part. But hey, this is Elon.

It's not valid at all. Elon literally has the power to add votes at a whim.

But for some reason people are acting like it's extremely serious.

One of the main reasons I post on these Reg articles about the twit who liked anti social media so much he bought the company is for the downvotes from Musk Ox fans. It is also a bit of a compulsive car crash thing as well. I have had to stop sneering at my wife for obsessively following the fate of Elizabeth Holmes now.

and now that he has stopped paying rent then I'd go in, change the locks and file suit. They properties stay closed until you pay 3 months rent in advance. Don't pay? Then we will send in the bailiffs and start removing goods to the value of what is owed plus legal costs.

Like Trumpo who if famous for not paying his lawyers, Elon the Twittler in Chief seems to not want to honour the lease contracts that he inherited. While he may be a billionaire, he still has to pay the bills. Perhaps putting a lien on his private jet might get him to play ball.

Not on Twitter so he can't ban me for this post.

Is this another bot hunt ? Or is it Elon looking for the answer he wants to be able bow away from the absolute nightmare humans who have him right in their sights ?

Who knows… but it is entertaining