American billionaire Elon Musk announced yesterday, Tuesday, that he will step down as CEO of Twitter, as soon as he finds a "foolish" person to take over. Musk said in a tweet, "I will resign from my position as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take over the job! After that, I will only run the software and server teams."
This announcement comes after more than a day of silence regarding the poll that Musk himself launched on the platform, in which Ghalya Twitter users supported his stepping down from his position in the company.
More than 17 million users participated in that vote, 57.5% of whom said Musk should resign.
And the billionaire returned, referring to this result only indirectly, as he stated that future opinion polls could be limited to paid users of the "Twitter Blue" system.
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has drawn criticism ever since he paid $44 billion to purchase Twitter in October.
Since buying this business, Musk has fired half of Twitter's top executives, reactivated Donald Trump's account, and scrapped the initiative to dispel false information about Covid-19.
Before returning, the American billionaire also blocked the promotion of competing for social media sites via Twitter and froze the accounts of select journalists.
Policymakers in Europe and the United States were alerted to these numerous developments. Musk has already received a warning from the European Commission that the European Union may impose "sanctions" on him due to the danger he represents to press freedom.
Elon Musk said in a series of tweets that Apple threatened to block the Twitter application from its App Store, without explaining the reason, and also mentioned that the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on the social networking platform, according to a Reuters report.
The CEO of Twitter and Tesla said Apple was pressuring Twitter over content moderation demands.
This action - which was not confirmed by Apple - would not be strange, because the company applied its rules permanently and removed applications such as "Gab" and "Parler" previously.
The companies said at the time that Apple took back Parler - which is popular with conservatives in the United States - in 2021 after the app updated its content and adhered to Apple's terms.
Musk - who bought Twitter for $44 billion - said in a tweet, "Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate freedom of speech in America?"
Later, he tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook's Twitter account in another tweet, asking, "What's going on here?"
Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
And Apple (the most valuable company in the world) spent an estimated $131,600 on Twitter ads between November 10 and November 16, down from $220,800 between October 16 and October 22. That's a week before Musk closed the Twitter deal, according to ad measurement firm Pathmatics.
The Washington Post reported, quoting an internal document on Twitter, that in the first quarter of 2022, Apple was the number one advertiser on Twitter, spending $48 million and accounting for more than 4% of total revenue for the period.
Since Musk purchased the company, Twitter's share price has decreased by a third.
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