Elon Musk starts Twitter poll on whether to bring back Trump
- ByStartupStory | November 19, 2022
Late on Friday, Elon Musk polled his Twitter followers on whether or not they would want to see former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account reinstated. Early results reveal that around 60% of voters are in favour of doing so. Elon Musk tweeted the Latin phrase “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” which translates as “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” The voting period lasted a whole day.
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, stated in May that he would reinstate Trump’s account after it had been banned after the assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2017. Earlier in the day, Elon Musk claimed that a decision on whether or not to restore Trump’s account had not yet been taken, but that Twitter had already restored the accounts of several other accounts that had been blocked or suspended for being too contentious.
As part of a significant corporate reorganisation that includes enormous layoffs, Elon Musk has decided to solicit advice from Twitter users on who should be allowed to use the service. Reuters obtained a copy of a note Musk sent to surviving workers on Friday, in which he instructed programmers to go to the 10th floor of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters by early afternoon.
A follow-up email from the billionaire said, “If feasible, I would love it if you could travel to SF to be there in person,” and included the information that he would be working until midnight and would return on Saturday morning. He requested that all staff send him an email outlining the accomplishments of their product during the preceding six months, “along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.”
Elon Musk stated in one of the emails that engineers should come by at 2 p.m. on Friday for “brief, technical interviews that enable me to better grasp the Twitter tech stack.” It was predicted that hundreds of Twitter workers had opted to depart the struggling social media platform after Musk’s Thursday deadline demanding that employees sign up for “long hours at high intensity.”
Adding to the upheaval and uncertainty that have characterised Elon Musk’s first three weeks as Twitter’s owner, many users have left the platform. His dismissal of top executives including former CEO Parag Agarwal and high-ranking employees in charge of data security and privacy has prompted an investigation by a government agency.
An official from the White House also stepped in, stating that Twitter should explain to the public how it was safeguarding users’ information.
Friday, tech news site Platformer said that Robin Wheeler, the company’s senior ad sales executive, had been let go.
Wheeler, who had previously informed staff in a letter that she would be remaining with the company, tweeted on Friday, “To the team and my clients…you were always my first and only priority,” along with a salute emoji often used to bid farewell to leaving staff.
Two independent sources claim that on Thursday, Twitter informed its staff that the company would be closing its offices and removing badge access until Monday. As of this writing, Reuters has not been able to verify whether or not the headquarters have reopened.
Three sources told Reuters that on Friday afternoon, the business began disabling the accounts of workers who had turned down Musk’s offer. One of Twitter’s three primary data centres in the United States is located in the SMF1 facility in the Sacramento area, according to another source. Elon Musk expressed concern that Twitter wouldn’t “survive the approaching economic crisis” in his first email to staff this month. In addition, he said, “We are also amending Twitter policy so that remote work is no longer permitted, unless you have a particular exemption.” Because of the alterations, Moody’s revoked Twitter’s B1 credit rating, stating that it lacked adequate data on which to base a new decision.
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