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Elon Musk says only paid accounts can vote as he fears 'bot-driven' Twitter polls asked him to step down as CEO

Hours after being voted out as CEO by a Twitter poll, Elon Musk said the platform would only let 'paid subscribers' vote on policy-related matters

Twitter owner Elon Musk has been in the headlines since the time of his bird app purchase and now his polls launched asking users whether he should step down as head of the micro-blogging platform. However, 57.5 % of users voted to oust him as CEO. Speculating 'bot army' actions behind the polls giving him unfavorable results, Musk has now said that he will be letting future polls be used only by Twitter blue subscribers.

"I will abide by the results of this poll", Musk said in his poll which was active for more than 24 hours. However, the $44 billion social media giant owner has not yet addressed the poll results since its closing early Monday, December 19. He has only responded to a few tweets that pointed out that the results have been let down by bots.

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The Tesla CEO wrote "Interesting" to the theory put forth by Kim Dotcom, the notorious Internet entrepreneur telling him that it was unwise of him "to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1. They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you."

Calling it the work of bots behind the polls, Dotcom tweeted: "I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots. The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go."

Musk wrote: "Good point" in response to a tweet where a user said that “blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy-related polls. We actually have skin in the game.” Agreeing with the point, Musk wrote, “Twitter will make that change,” hinting at a policy change.

Priced at $8 a month, the Twitter Blue subscription that verifies users for the checkmark along with their usernames has been among the initial blasts of policy change when he took over the platform in October.

With 17.5 million users voting for Musk to step down as CEO, the billionaire remains silent on clearing the question of whether he would step down or who would be his successor.

Responding to a tweet that wrote: "I’ve been telling @elonmusk to hire someone as Twitter CEO from the beginning. That way when things go wrong you can blame that person, but you still ultimate control as the owner.", Musk replied: “No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.”