Pfft. NOT the Onion! Elon Musk plans to restrict Twitter polls after users vote for him to step down

[CousinIT]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-plans-restrict-policy-104030576.html

Tue, December 20, 2022

(Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Monday Twitter Inc will restrict voting on policy-related polls to paying Twitter Blue subscribers, on the same day that users voted decisively in a poll for Musk to step down as chief executive of the social media platform.

Musk responded to a suggestion from a Twitter Blue subscriber, who said only subscribers should get a vote on policy polls, with "Good point. Twitter will make that change", without specifying when the change would come into effect.

Musk said on Sunday he would abide by the results of the CEO poll, but did not give details on when he would step down if the results said he should. He has not yet named a successor for the role.

[CatWoman]

1. he just doesn't fucking get it

[AllaN01Bear]

2. shot himself in the foot as to say , eh?

[lapfog_1]

3. how can he "make the change"

if he is no longer the CEO?

After all, he said he would abide by the stupid idiot online poll...

BTW I logged on to twitter for the first time in YEARS just to vote YES YOU SHOULD STEP DOWN

asshole... and to think I almost went to work for Tesla years ago.

[CentralMass]

4. The Tyrant Of Twitter.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Polling shall continue until polls abolish polls

[Lovie777]

6. Musk is just as crazy as the rest of them .....

-0- respect.

[Lovie777]

7. Musk is just as crazy as the rest of them .....

-0- respect.

[Ocelot II]

8. Who actually thought he'd abide by a vote he didn't like?

Sounds like another malignant narcissist we know...

[Yonnie3]

9. Musk's offhand tweets about Twitter policies must be taken only as possibilities

Some of what he says ends up implemented and then unimplemented. Other stuff just disappears.

It seems reminiscent of TFG and to some extent he is looking for reactions. Trolling.

Can we perhaps just not react to all his crap?

[CentralMass]

12. No. I'm fine with reacting on his latest incendiary proclamations.

[moonshinegnomie]

10. i keep asking on twitter if hes stepped down yet

[Prendy]

11. Elon and Hobbs

Clearly Musk is playing Calvinball, making up and changing rules as he goes along.

[Emrys]

13. The media need to stop treating every burble Musk emits during his exchanges on Twitter

as hard-and-fast policy changes. Otherwise they look stupid, flatfooted and out of date when "decisions" like this are reversed on a regular basis after they hit the hard wall of reality in a short space of time.

Musk is incredibly impressionable, and it seems like he takes what sycophants on Twitter tell him as gospel, whether they be his prime advisor Catturd, anonymous blue-tick blow-ins, or disgraced felons like Kim Dotcom. That's how this "policy change" came about.

I think highplainsdem is probably right in her OP "Musk can't limit his silly polls to Twitter Blue subscribers without showing how few there are."

[CentralMass]

14. This seems to be the talking point.

[marble falls]

15. I'm enjoying his self destruction, a lot.

[BWdem4life]

16. What would really help

is if he didn't post polls while drinking.

[SWBTATTReg]

17. Anyone that makes their own poll(s) kind of inadvertently or not influences the results of the ...

poll(s) anyways. Why waste time on completing such a poll tailored especially by the person who is the subject of the poll?

The end result is one a lot of us could have predicted easily in advance, that he'll ignore the results (as he's done) and come up w/ another half-wit poll to yield the results he's looking for. Thus, in short, why waste our time on his stupid poll(s)?