“Should I step down?” Musk asks users in new Twitter poll
Washington: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has started a poll on the site, asking the millions of Twitter users if he should step down as head of the microblogging site.
The question follows the multiple policy changes on Twitter in the last few days, reports NDTV.
"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll," Musk asked in one of his tweets.
"Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won't happen again," he said in another tweet.
Musk has asked people to poll about his continuation as CEO of Twitter after the site announced on Sunday that accounts used to promote other accounts other specific social media platforms would be banned.
Twitter Support has posted on the matter, "We recognise that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter."
It added that accounts created to promote other social platforms and content with links or user names for Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post, would be removed.
Twitter also said that it allowed cross-posting of content from any social media platform. "Posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy," it clarified.
The change in Twitter rules, however, has come at a time when Musk has faced criticism for major policy changes in Twitter.
Also, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that he was 'very disturbed' by Elon Musk's suspension of journalists from Twitter, calling it a dangerous precedent.
Guterres' spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said during a press briefing that media voices should not be silenced on a platform that professes to be a space for freedom of speech. The UN spokesperson said this move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing censorship, physical threats and even worse.
Twitter on Thursday had suspended the accounts of several journalists but, after severe backlash, had restored the accounts.
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BJP’s Nitin Nabin slams TMC over infiltration, SIR row
Kolkata (PTI): BJP president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the TMC government in West Bengal, accusing it of protecting illegal infiltrators, targeting Hindus and playing “dirty politics” to derail the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls.
Nabin alleged that there was a deliberate attempt by the TMC to turn West Bengal into Bangladesh and claimed that while the Election Commission was determined to weed out infiltrators and fake voters, the ruling party was committed to protecting them.
“The TMC government wants West Bengal to merge with Bangladesh. Under its rule, the demography of the state is being changed, posing a threat to national security,” he said.
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Dismissing the TMC’s allegation that the EC was harassing common people through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the BJP president said it was the state administration that was intimidating citizens to malign the poll panel.
“It is not the Election Commission that is harassing people. It is the TMC government’s SDOs and BDOs who are doing it to create fear and discredit the EC,” he alleged.
Nabin also accused the TMC government of being a protector of infiltrators and claimed that lawlessness had replaced governance in the state.
“Factories have been shut, and enterprises of corruption and lawlessness have been opened. Women are not safe under the TMC rule, and Hindus are being tortured,” he alleged.
Asserting that the BJP was fighting against what he described as the misrule of the TMC in West Bengal, Nabin said the party would continue efforts to curb infiltration, electoral manipulation and administrative intimidation in the state.
