Tesla (TSLA) stock clocked solid gains Monday morning but reversed to a loss midmorning as CEO Elon Musk signaled he may stop running Twitter. Twitter users responded to a poll Musk posted Sunday evening on the social media platform. The majority of voters said Musk should step down from his role as Twitter chief executive.
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During the weekend, Musk dominated the news cycle, as a number of journalists had their Twitter accounts suspended. After some back and forth on imposing new policies, on Sunday evening, Musk posted a poll to his Twitter account asking if he should “step down as head of Twitter.”
As of Monday morning, 17.5 million Twitter users had responded to the poll with 57.5% saying Musk should step down and 42.5% saying he should remain in the role.
“I will abide by the results of this poll,” Musk wrote on Twitter.
Tesla stock shot up around 4% early Monday in premarket trade, but was down 0.2% by the time the…
