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Mike DunfordElon is running a Twitter poll to see if he should stay or go.
It's received nearly 6 million votes.
He's losing by about 15 points.
He paid 44 billion dollars for this opportunity.
Michael S@questauthority if he 'goes' he's still gonna be the owner...so nothing will change, he'll still stick his nose in, and things will change according to his whim. Maybe just a bit slower, and with him trying to blame someone else.
Razanur@questauthority I'm waiting for Mike Lindell to fille a lawsuit at SCOTUS about it
DanMy big question is: when is the next Tesla board meeting?
Because near guarantee this is because of that and him trying to save his arse.
I am assuming he got the heads up this afternoon that if he didn't step down from twitter immediately, he would be forced to step down from Tesla.
hybrid havoc@questauthority If he loses, do we actually expect him to honor it?
@hybridhavoc @questauthority I genuinely think he has already decided to step down. Primarily because he is being forced to by Tesla.
That doesn't stop him from being a thin-skinned arse who makes capricious decisions. Now he just gets to blame someone else for every one of his failures.
@Danielsand @questauthority those darned activists again
@hybridhavoc @questauthority I so look forward to seeing his explanation for why he is stepping down and replacing himself with one of his renfields (Jason or David). .
@Danielsand @questauthority I like his follow-up posts. "Be careful what you wish for" and "there is no successor."
K`Tetch@Danielsand @hybridhavoc @questauthority I don't think it's tesla forcing it.
There's two options in my head.
1) tesla stock price is now at 150, odds are that's the call price for his loans. So he's doing this to try and maybe give the bank a reason to not call the loans.
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There's two options in my head.
1) tesla stock price is now at 150, odds are that's the call price for his loans. So he's doing this to try and maybe give the bank a reason to not call the loans.
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@Danielsand @hybridhavoc @questauthority
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2) he was at the game, and photographed with one of his investors. That investor suggested maybe someone else would be better running it, "someone like jamal khashoggi, what ever happened to him again... oh yeah. Socks when that happens doesn't it? Now what was I saying, oh yeah, I think twitter needs a new head"
Or somthing like that. And this is his way to save face with his vox populai bullshit.
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2) he was at the game, and photographed with one of his investors. That investor suggested maybe someone else would be better running it, "someone like jamal khashoggi, what ever happened to him again... oh yeah. Socks when that happens doesn't it? Now what was I saying, oh yeah, I think twitter needs a new head"
Or somthing like that. And this is his way to save face with his vox populai bullshit.
@ktetch @hybridhavoc @questauthority
I agree he is using the poll to save face. But disagree on him doing this because he isn't forced. I think the evidence points to both the board and the biggest shareholders forcing his hand.
There have bene repeated public outcry by some of the biggest shareholders. He has been flying like crazy lately. I won't be surprised if he has personally visited the top 5 shareholders begging them to not force him to exit.
@ktetch @hybridhavoc @questauthority
Gotcha. I misunderstood. sorry.
No idea if he is a shareholder or not. .
@Danielsand @hybridhavoc @questauthority well, at least indirectly, via the wealth fund or somthing.
TrueBlueKew@questauthority I mean, what does going really mean, though? He will still own the company, right?
Brian@questauthority It would have been cheaper for him to run for Congress.
Cranky David@questauthority
comedy truly is alive over there.
comedy truly is alive over there.
Norman@questauthority assuming he's not directly manipulating the results, holding the poll after ANOTHER huge debacle like three days after the last one is strongly likely to get this result
Quantum Mechanic@questauthority Obviously he doesn't want Twitter, so this has nothing to do with him:
Jeff@questauthority musk mental stability will always be a threat to Tesla and SpaceX
Joseph Delaney@questauthority To be fair, the meaning of such an online poll is very unclear. A "bogus poll", perhaps?
https://www.statschat.org.nz/2014/08/28/bogus-clicky-polls/
That said, owning Twitter is definitely not the source of validation that it seems that he was hoping for. Unlike SpaceX and Tesla we don't see the same relentless positive press.
MysterVui@questauthority world's largest paypig.
ToSkinADonkey@questauthority Even if he is sincere (he's not) and humbly put this out in a moment of deep introspection (he didn't), he already broke the toy. Getting someone to super glue it back together, doesn't make it not broken.
Damion Schubert@questauthority This is the most Twitter possible way that Twitter could end.
Col. Boozy Badger@questauthority I would like to pay money to have people express how much they hate me too.
Kamiten, Cursed Feral Clown 🔜 NFC'26@BoozyBadger @questauthority Then my friend, might i humbly suggest an Xbox Live subscription?
Michael@questauthority To be fair, he'll still own it, even if he isn't running it day-to-day. And he never wanted to run it day-to-day anyway.
KeirFox@questauthority @BoozyBadger The decision has already been made - he’s simply using the poll to make it look like he was forced out by the mean, nasty leftists. He has to install someone competent because he is now under threat of removal as CEO of Tesla - shareholders there are furious as are the Saudis that loaned him the cash.
Ulrike@questauthority
This is just a humiliation kink, right?
This is just a humiliation kink, right?
ZenDarva@questauthority
There's a fair amount of people claiming he's been told to step down by his investors.
There's a fair amount of people claiming he's been told to step down by his investors.
Ethan Jacobs@questauthority the minute the poll ends he runs into the server room in his Halloween armor swinging a genuine 13th-century kanabō.
Tamar Yellin@ethanjacobslaw @questauthority lol thanks for the laugh
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Eli Rivera 🍉@questauthority just wanna add Snoop Dog is running his own poll to see if he should take over. I think that’s the one that matters.
jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷWhat if it was his move to get backup in front of the investors that apparently wanted him to find a CEO but it's just backfiring?
toxtethogrady@questauthority Actually, he promised to put a CEO in place at Twitter back in the beginning. He may want to lose. The question is who should be put in charge... #JohnMastodon
Arek@toxtethogrady @questauthority John Mastodon obviously 🙄
Anathema Device@questauthority I love it :)
Steyrshrek@questauthority In the immortal words of The Clash “Should I stay or should I go now. If I go there will be trouble if I stay it will be double.”
alister@questauthority i think we all needed something to laugh at after the last few years.
Keith Milner@questauthority at this point I might vote "stay" because, at this point, Twitter has been fatally compromised, and his continued bad behaviour might push more people away from the platform sooner.
Kat O’Brien@questauthority unbelievable
Kirsty@questauthority don’t fall for it and log in. It just boosts active user numbers.
Patrick C Miller 
@questauthority how many bots get to vote?
Andrew Brobston@questauthority He could still win the Electoral College vote though 😆
brian $@questauthority Almost completely unsurprisingly that the poll came after spending the day with the Kushner and the Saudis. They’ve found that $44B is not enough money to wallpaper over Musk’s incompetence at running a media company.
Digg@questauthority Elon payed 44b to be Twitters permanent bad guy of the day. There are hardcore masochists that feels outdone right now.