Twitter users voted for Elon Musk to step down as CEO in a poll launched by the billionaire on the platform Sunday.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” Musk wrote.
More than 17 million Twitter users voted in the poll, with 57.5% saying he should step down, while 42.5% voted against the move.
There was no announcement from Twitter about whether Musk would step down, though he said on Sunday that he would abide by the results.
The results is a sharp rebuke of Musk’s chaotic tenure less than two months since he took over the platform.
Earlier on Sunday, Musk banned users from posting links to their accounts on rival social media sites including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
Even people who defended Musk’s leadership in the past criticized him for the move. Hours later Musk walked back that policy and promised to conduct online Twitter polls to make any future policy changes.
Musk’s move to ban links to rival social media sites is his latest attempt to ban speech he does not like on Twitter despite claiming to be a “free speech absolutist”. He recently banned the account that tracks his private jet using publicly available data and later suspended the accounts of journalists from national media outlets who reported on the ban.
