• The duration of Musk's Twitter poll is about 12 hours.
• He has previously requested votes on policy issues from Twitter followers.
• Since acquiring the business, Musk has made significant adjustments.

Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter, promising to follow the results and asking users to vote on whether or not he should stand down as CEO. The poll will remain open until around 4:30 p.m. India time, or 3 a.m. PST, and the results will be available soon. 

As Twitter's CEO, Musk has had a turbulent few months, firing thousands of employees, enacting significant policy changes, including the untimely introduction of the Twitter Blue premium subscription plan and the lifting of numerous controversial individuals and organisations' bans, including former US President Donald Trump. 

Musk has previously said he didn't want to hold the CEO position at Twitter for a long time and that he would hire someone else instead. Currently, he serves as CEO of the Musk Foundation, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Tesla Inc., and The Boring Company. Recent criticism for disregarding his other jobs has come from major Tesla stockholders in particular. 

Musk has been focused on generating cash despite rumours of advertisers quitting the platform and a large decline in revenue; yet, he has stated that the social networking platform may go bankrupt. Starting with a significant round of layoffs and urging additional employees to leave or work 'very tough' hours, his term as CEO has generated controversy.

 In the name of supporting freedom of speech, he has also made significant modifications to Twitter as a platform and taken steps to undermine many of the company's content control features. He and Apple CEO Tim Cook have a squabble over advertising revenue and Apple's 30% portion of in-app purchases.

 Regarding product modifications, he has proposed raising the character limit for tweets to 4,000, which would fundamentally alter the platform's purpose. He has also mentioned that all users will have the ability to edit Tweets after they have been posted. While it was unclear whether any steps had been made to avoid vote rigging, Musk recently asked Twitter users if they would like to see Donald Trump's account reinstated.

 This was done in violation of a pledge to only allow a 'content moderation council with broadly diversified opinions' to decide on account reinstatements and content moderation. Musk later clarified to business staff, however, that the council would simply serve as 'advisory,' and that he would still be the final arbitrator of any such decisions. Uncertainty surrounds the existence of such a council, and Twitter's existing Trust and Safety Council has since been dismantled.