On Sunday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk released a poll about whether or not he should step down as Twitter CEO.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll,” Musk asked. As of now, the poll has received over 17,000,000 votes and 58% of voters voted in favor of him stepping down.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
In a tweet on Monday afternoon however, Musk hinted that the poll may have been a ploy to catch bots on Twitter.
“Hey @elonmusk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1,” said Kim Dotcom on Twitter. “They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you.”
“I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots,” he added. “The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go.”
Musk then confirmed the thought, responding: “Interesting.”
Interesting
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022
Musk fueled the speculation that he would not be stepping down even more when he responded to another Twitter user who suggested that only people who subscribe to Twitter Blue should be able to vote.
“Blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls. We actually have skin in the game,” Unfiltered Boss said on Twitter.
Musk replied, “Good point. Twitter will make that change.”
Good point. Twitter will make that change.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2022
The original Twitter poll was released over 24 hours ago so we should be receiving an update from Musk soon. Stay tuned…
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