After launching a survey to ask users if he should leave the position of CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk recalculated and even decided to limit who can vote. The billionaire proposed that only those who pay for Twitter “blue” can vote in surveys related to the policies of the social network.

One Twitter user said that “Blue subscribers should be the only ones who can vote in polls related to politics.” Musk assured that it is a “good point”, and that “Twitter will make that change.”

Thus, the proposition that Twitter Blue users would make sense to prevent bots, that is, accounts that are not human, but automated, from interfering with the results and that a decision is made in relation to it.

However, the problem is that this feature could benefit Elon Musk andn your personal decisions, especially considering that many of its fans are subscribed to the service.

An exchange with Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom had to do with Musk’s decision. The historic businessman said that “it was not prudent to carry out a survey like this” when he was now “the number 1 enemy of the deep state.” “They have the largest army of bots on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this survey again. Most have faith in you,” Dotcom wrote.

Elon Musk, meanwhile, asked Twitter users if he should stay on as CEO of the company. And he promised, above all, to respect the will of the survey. The vote ended with a 57,5 % of participants calling for him to step down as CEO of Twitter.

The survey

57.5% of the more than 17 million accounts that responded to the survey spoke out for the departure of Musk, who on Sunday asked in a tweet: “Should I resign as head of Twitter?” and assured that he would abide by the result.

Musk, who is also the head of automaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, did not immediately react.

The businessman of South African origin personally assumed the reins of Twitter on October 27 after a controversial purchase agreement of the social network by 44,000 million dollars.

Since then, various controversies have been generated with the dismissal of half of Twitter’s staff, the reinstatement of far-right figures on the platform, the suspension of journalists and the attempt to charging for services that were previously free.

Analysts also noted that Tesla’s stock price has fallen by a third since Musk acquired Twitter.

“It’s hard to ignore the numbers since closed the deal [de Twitter]investment expert Gary Black tweeted, saying he believed Tesla’s board of directors was pressuring Musk to step down from his role at Twitter.

In exchanges with users after publishing his latest survey, Musk claimed he did not have a successor in mind and renewed his warnings that the platform could be on the way to bankruptcy.