{"id":208028,"date":"2022-12-20T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=208028"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:14:57","slug":"elon-musk-twitter-subscribers-can-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-twitter-subscribers-can-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says only Twitter subscribers can vote to avoid bot interferance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> votes were in for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musk-twitter-vote-CEO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elon Musk to resign as CEO<\/a> of the platform. It was a clear indication that the<strong> majority wanted him gone<\/strong>. As predicted, Musk wasn\u2019t going to do so. Now, it looks like he agrees with a few supporters that bots are the reason the voting results were skewed. It looks like he will only allow subscribers to vote going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon has been focusing a lot on the Twitter platform since he took over, making us wonder if he still has an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/tesla-new-features-elon-musk-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"interest in Tesla\">interest in Tesla<\/a> and the space project to Mars. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musks-to-ruffle-twitter-feathers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"ruffled several feathers\">ruffled several feathers<\/a>, causing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-mass-exodus-spirals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"many of the employees to leave\">many of the employees to leave<\/a> over the last month or so. It doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s planning to <strong>stop his shenanigans<\/strong> anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately, Musk has been <strong>using votes to make key decisions<\/strong> on Twitter. One of the biggest was whether Donald Trump should have his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-bans-mastodon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"account reinstated\">account reinstated<\/a>. When the majority said yes, the former US President got his account back. This time, he asked people to vote on if he should resign as CEO. While the majority said yes again, he\u2019s yet to show signs of doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With his followers asking him if <strong>bots were involved in the voting<\/strong>, Musk wondered the same thing. Now he\u2019s saying that only <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-dissolves-trust-safety-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"members with a Twitter subscription\">members with a Twitter subscription<\/a> can vote. Apparently, this will avoid bots affecting the votes, for which he\u2019s hoping for a better result. Talk about fiddling with the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I usually follow what Collin Rugg has to say about Elon, as he always provides insightful or hilarious information. In one of his<a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-blue-subscription-character-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\" latest Tweets\"> latest Tweets<\/a>, he says Musk only used the voting to <strong>catch accounts that were using bots<\/strong>. Whatever the reason is, I don\u2019t think Elon is going to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-heads-into-deep-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"step down as Twitter CEO\">step down as Twitter CEO<\/a> anytime soon. At least he knows what the majority think of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Elon Musk hints that yesterday\u2019s poll about him stepping down as Twitter CEO was a trick to catch bots.<br><br>Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1604990858042159104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter votes were in for Elon Musk to resign as CEO of the platform. It was a clear indication that the majority wanted him gone. As predicted, Musk wasn\u2019t going to do so. Now, it looks like he agrees with a few supporters that bots are the reason the voting results were skewed. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-twitter-subscribers-can-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elon Musk says only Twitter subscribers can vote to avoid bot interferance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":208032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1434,1415],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-208028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322735,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208028\/revisions\/322735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208028"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=208028"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=208028"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=208028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}