Elon Musk asks Twitter users to decide if he should step down

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS. Elon Musk is asking Twitter users to vote on whether he should step down as head of the social media site.

The billionaire owner of Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted apoll Sunday evening asking people to vote on whether he should step down as Twitter’s CEO. Musk said he would abide by the poll’s results.

As of Sunday evening, “Yes” was winning by a margin of 58% to 42%.

In several follow-up tweets, Musk suggested that he was serious about leaving. “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it,” Musktweeted.

Since buying Twitter for $44 billion and taking over as CEO in late October, Musk was in the center of many controversies, namely after firing several top executives and almost half of the staff of Twitter, and introducing new regulations, CNN reported.