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Elon Musk: Only blue tick users to vote in Twitter polls on policy

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The billionaire says he will change the policy on Twitter votes after users say he should step down.
Elon Musk has said Twitter will only allow accounts with a blue tick to vote on changes to policy after a majority of users voted for him to quit.
Mr Musk launched a Twitter poll asking if he should step down as chief executive – 57.5% of users voted „yes“.
Since then, he has not commented directly on the result of the poll.
But he has said that Twitter will alter its rules so that only people who pay for a subscription can vote on company policy.
One user claimed that so-called bots appeared to have voted heavily in the poll about Mr Musk’s role at the firm. Mr Musk said he found the claim „interesting“.
The billionaire had said when he ran the poll that he would abide by the result. If he does quit as chief executive, he will remain as Twitter’s owner.
Bruce Daisley, former vice president of Twitter, compared any potential change to that of a football manager. „The chairman still remains and Elon Musk is going to be that ever-present voice in the back of the room,“ he told the BBC’s Today programme.
In response to a tweet saying Twitter Blue subscribers „should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls.

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