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Elon Musk simply did the unthinkable.
He left his future at Twitter within the palms of his followers (and the remainder of us).
A brand new Twitter ballot asks whether or not he ought to step down as the pinnacle of Twitter. As of this publish, the votes are working in his favor, 57% saying no he ought to keep and 43% saying he ought to step down. In just some minutes, the votes are already approaching 700,000. Right here’s the ballot:
Handing over the choice to the plenty is a daring transfer.
Musk stated within the ballot that he’ll abide by the choice of the voters. For many of us following his antics at Twitter over the previous few weeks, this is without doubt one of the strangest and wildest strikes he has ever made, since he’s suggesting he would truly step except for working the corporate if all of us vote for him to do this.
It’s additionally an indication of an enormous ego.
No matter how this seems, asking individuals to maintain him “in office” and saying he’ll conform to no matter occurs means he should be extraordinarily assured.
We additionally don’t know if he can tweak the end result and even change the voting, since we don’t have entry to any of the mechanics and this isn’t an official election.
I additionally marvel how that is potential given the truth that Twitter and Elon Musk should have some accountability to traders and people who work on the social media agency.
Musk is aware of his followers will come to his rescue. Possibly. In the previous few minutes penning this column, the vote has swung wildly towards him and is now at roughly 50-50. A couple of minutes later, and the voting is now at 52% in favor of him stepping down. There at the moment are one million votes!
What this implies is that the pro-Elon Musk crowd observed his tweet immediately, and now the ballot is making its method out to the plenty (that means, exterior of his 122 million followers). It’s simple to neglect that Musk has virtually half the variety of followers which are even utilizing Twitter.
I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than.
Musk appears to give you concepts within the spur of the second, doubtless from a luxurious suite in Qatar the place he watched the World Cup. Possibly he requested individuals touring with him if he ought to conduct the ballot and so they all instructed him it was a sensible transfer. Possibly he’s by himself.
Both method, it’s ridiculous to run a ballot about his personal place.
Right here’s what we do know:
Musk would have a tough time letting Twitter fall into the palms of anybody else, contemplating he nonetheless owns the corporate. It could be like Henry Ford agreeing to let another person run the automaker within the early days. Or Steve Jobs in his prime at Apple. Or President Trump permitting another person to steer whereas he was President of the US. In different phrases, unlikely.
Even when Musk did step down, he would doubtless nonetheless run the present from backstage.
Or was he hacked?
That’s uncertain.
I’ll publish an replace within the morning after the ballot ends in about 11 hours from now. Proper now, the “yes he should step down” votes are working about 54% with 1,300,000 votes.
Fascinating stuff.
