Edward Snowden Offers to Lead Twitter in Exchange for a BTC Salary

Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, has expressed interest in leading Twitter. In a tweet posted today, the 39-year-old former NSA consultant said he would take Bitcoin for the role. In response to Elon Musk’s claim that Twitter needs a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.

I take payment in Bitcoin. https://t.co/wW0Qa9NxWi

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 19, 2022

All these changes occurred due to controversial policy adjustments by Twitter’s founder. Musk just implemented a rule that prevents users from sharing content from other social networks. That has enraged some users and soured old friends.

The Tesla owner started a poll to decide whether he will stand down as the CEO in an apparent effort to address the unforeseen upheaval that has confused the Twitter community since his acquisition. Musk said in a Twitter poll that if the majority of people wanted him to leave his position as CEO of the micro-blogging company, he would abide by the findings.

Elon Musk Polled Twitter on Whether He Should Step Down as CEO

Elon Musk issued an informal survey Sunday asking followers if they thought he should leave the position.

At the poll’s conclusion at 6:20 a.m. ET on Monday, the majority of participants (57.5%) demanded that the billionaire resigns from his position. By the time the poll was over, over 17 million people had cast their votes.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

Musk declared he would follow the poll’s findings. Whether he will do so is unknown. In Monday’s U.S. premarket trading, shares of Tesla, another of Musk’s businesses, increased by more than 4%.

Musk stated, “I expect to limit my time at Twitter and find somebody else to operate Twitter over time,” in court in November. On the other hand, he said in a tweet from Sunday that he had no potential successor at the social media giant.

Finding a CEO is not the issue; the issue is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter operational.

The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

The billionaire responded to a user who suggested that Musk had already selected a replacement by saying, No one wants the position who can genuinely keep Twitter alive. There isn’t a replacement.

Twitter polls are informal straw polls; we cannot compare them to formal public opinion polling. Malicious bots or fraudulent accounts may register an answer to a Twitter poll.

After the “Chief Twit” (as he has dubbed himself) abruptly changed Twitter’s policies last week, there was an online uproar that led to Musk’s Sunday poll.

Twitter New Policy Changes

The company on Sunday unveiled a new social media platform promotion strategy that forbade users from posting links to sure of their other social media profiles. Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, and other ardent supporters of Elon Musk voiced their outrage at the policy, leading Musk to retract his statement and issue an apology.

A few days prior, the company revised its guidelines about “doxxing,” which is now defined by the company as “publishing someone’s private information online without that person’s permission.” Under the new policy, users get forbidden from posting other people’s physical locations, home addresses, contact information, or live location information. However, many users need clarification on what data is prohibited.

Several American journalists, commentators, and others who have previously criticized Musk or his enterprises had their accounts suspended due to Musk’s policy changes. Some of the accounts were entirely or partially restored a few days later, but not all.

The management of the billionaire’s account is spilling over into his other businesses and generating questions about them.

For instance, Musk sold shares of Tesla worth billions of dollars this year to pay for the acquisition of Twitter. Additionally, he has recruited executives, engineers, and lawyers from SpaceX and Tesla to help him at Twitter.

The business currently offers discounts on automobiles in China, indicating decreased demand for its cars there, according to Tesla bear Toni Sacconaghi from Bernstein on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” last week. This is one of Tesla’s challenges.