After being spotted relaxed at the World Cup Jared Kushner, the Tesla CEO lost an online poll on whether he should stay on as Twitter boss
If he is a man of his word, then Elon Musk will “step down as head of Twitter”, afterBut the pledge in his tweet accompanying the poll, apparently made as he relaxed after watching the World Cup final in Doha in the company of Donald Trump’s son-in-lawMusk has had a bad weekhad been reporting the movements of his private jet
, using a new rule written on the fly to suspend the account. He then suspended the accounts of some prominent journalists who reported on the furore, then banned any promotion of “third-party platforms”, after users began discussing where they would go when they left Twitter. The moves caused instant pushback. Blocking people from leaving is hardly a sign of confidence in your ability to convince them to stay. Users pointed out thatthat: “The acid test for any two competing … systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping.”
Musk quickly U-turned on the journalism suspensions and third-party rule, and promised to put any future major changes to a poll of users. But the damage appears to have been done.The suggestion that Musk would step back didn’t come out of nowhere. “There’s an initial burst of activity needed post-acquisition to reorganise the company,” he told a Delaware court last monthDespite that, he insisted he did not have a successor in mind,that “those who want power are the ones who least deserve it”.
She joined in 2002, the same year Musk founded the company, and her job is still about carrying out his vision. These days that means reassuring Nasa that Musk isn’t going to wreckNasa administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last week that he asked Shotwell if Twitter would be a “distraction”, and she said it wouldn’t. “I hugged her with a smile on my face, because I know she is running that thing.
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