The continued fiasco that has been Elon Musk taking cost of Twitter continues, together with his newest jaunt being the creation of a ballot to let customers determine if he ought to step down from being CEO of the corporate.

It started over the weekend, the place in accordance with The Verge (opens in new tab) a brand new coverage was instantly enforce which threatened customers with account suspension in the event that they had been discovered to be sharing hyperlinks to different social networks on Twitter, reminiscent of Mastodon and Instagram.

Just a few hours later this was reversed, with the posts and tweets deleted and Musk apologizing.

Nonetheless, this led to a weird plot twist the place he created a ballot as as to if he ought to keep or step down as Twitter CEO, alongside Twitter Assist creating its personal ballot (opens in new tab) concerning whether or not customers ought to have the ability to share hyperlinks to different social platforms.

I have been following this saga since Musk first determined to purchase the platform in April, adopted by placing it on maintain in Could, and it is akin to a nasty film from the 90s.

His survey says..

Ought to I step down as head of Twitter? I’ll abide by the outcomes of this ballot.December 18, 2022

See extra

The ballot closed at 6:20 PT / 11:20 GMT on December 19, with 57.9% voting that he ought to step down, with 17,502,391 votes being made on this ballot.

Whereas his causes for doing it this manner nearly make sense, all of it feels as if he is toying with customers for engagement. Drama is one thing most of us have seemingly seen or skilled on social networks reminiscent of Fb and Musk is not any stranger to this, which is why incidents like these have been flooding the information streams ever since he took over in November.

From replying to infamous customers and unbanning others reminiscent of Donald Trump, it makes headlines and retains Twitter related. Granted, the platform has sorely wanted huge modifications for some time now, however it should not need to stoop so low to the purpose the place customers are voting as to whether or not they can share hyperlinks to different social networks.

I’ve already been utilizing Twitter much less and Mastodon extra (opens in new tab) – I discover it enjoyable and fascinating, and a far cry from how I have been studying my Twitter feed, even earlier than Musk took over. When you’re pondering of shifting to an alternate social media platform, we have some nice selections so that you can contemplate.

The results of the ballot will almost definitely do nothing – silence could make extra of an affect than a tweet thread, and Musk is aware of it.

As a substitute, we advocate you sit up for the vacation break and spend it with household and pals, watching unhealthy films and consuming all types of chocolate; not poring over this billionaire’s newest social media antics.