Biggest Twitter shareholder Elon Musk has referred to crypto spam bots as the single most annoying issue on Twitter
After Elon Musk just revealed he has a 9.2% stake in Twitter, he’s already conducting a second poll on possible changes to Twitter’s functionality and hinting that he might do so in the future. faced with crypto-spam bots on “his” social network.
This is not the first time the centibillionaire has complained about crypto scams on Twitter—except now we know he is the single biggest shareholder of this platform.
Musk’s new poll on potential Twitter changes
Tesla boss and now also the investor who alone owns 9.2% of Twitter shares, Elon Musk has launched a poll to find out if Twitter users would like to have an edit button for their tweets and comments.
A total of 2,522,614 people have already voted, while there are still 14 hours until the survey ends.
One of the suggestions sent to Musk on this was a “yes” – provided there was a link to the original uncorrected version of the text, with the edit function only available for 5-10 minutes to avoid multiple editing of the same tweet. /comment.
Michael Sayman, the product lead at Twitter, responded to Musk that the company’s tech team is already working on building an edit button, quoting a message from April 1 by the Twitter team.
Other commenters pointed out that Musk and Twitter are working together on this issue and that Musk likes to start his polls after a decision on their topics has already been made.
Some of Twitter staff are resigning because of Musk
Someone called Jackson Mulholland tweeted that he was part of the Twitter team working on terms and conditions for users. He stated that the vast team in charge of the terms were not stripping away free speech, as Musk put it earlier, but they were protecting users from bullying, scams and the like.
Mulholland said he refused to “work with or for Elon Musk”, so he chose to resign from his job.
Musk slams crypto spam bots on Twitter
One of the responses received by Musk was about the crypto spam bots issue on the social media giant. The centibillionaire responded that he believes this to be the single biggest problem on Twitter.
Earlier this year, the Tesla chief already drew public attention to the problem of crypto scams on Twitter. In a chat with DOGE co-founder Billy Markus, Musk pointed to the proliferation of crypto scams on this social network.
He also pointed out that Twitter had been striving to solve this problem for a long time but had not succeeded yet. The discussion took place in mid-February and, even then, it was not the first time Musk had brought that issue to public attention.
