The year 2022 will have been one of changes and twists for the blue bird.

Elon Musk thus announced on Tuesday on Twitter his intention to leave the head of the social network as soon as he has "found someone crazy enough" to replace him, explaining that he will then focus on the "software and servers”.

The owner of the microblogging platform reacted to the result of the poll he himself had initiated on Monday on Twitter, asking whether he should retire from the head of the company or not, 57% of the 17 million voters answering by the affirmative.

Twitter has “a slight bot problem”

If he had said at first that he would comply with the result of his poll, Elon Musk had sent rather contradictory signals in recent hours, seeming to believe that the result had been distorted by the vote of bots.

A little earlier in the day, Elon Musk had indeed retweeted the result of an opinion poll carried out by the HarrisX institute, with its own sample of users of the platform, and which gave 61% of those questioned. in favor of retaining him as CEO.

“Interesting, this seems to suggest that we do have a slight problem with bots on Twitter,” reacted the owner of the platform in response to the institute's tweet presenting the results.

A comment came after Elon Musk endorsed another tweet suggesting his poll had been botned.

He also estimated that any new poll would now be reserved for paying users of Twitter.

In the past, the businessman had already relied on polls to support controversial decisions, such as the reactivation of former US President Donald Trump's account.

At Tesla, investors await his return

The result of its latest poll initially led to a rise in the title of Tesla, whose investors are increasingly critical of the attention given to Twitter since the takeover, to the detriment of the automaker, they believe.

Several American media had for their part assured that Elon Musk had gone in search of a replacement, citing anonymous sources, information that the owner of Twitter had then dismissed with a simple mocking emoticon on the social network.

Less than eight weeks after taking control of the social network for 44 billion dollars, Twitter does not see the storm subsiding.

The company is on the brink of financial abyss having lost a number of advertisers to the risk posed to brands by the billionaire's desire to reduce content moderation.

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