The poll is scheduled to close around 11. 20 am on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)

Elon Musk is back at it again with one of his famous Twitter polls and this time the results could decide his future as the head of the social media platform.

On Sunday, Musk launched a poll on Twitter, asking if he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll results.

So far the majority of the 15,681,114 voters have voted ‘Yes’ to Musk stepping down.

However, the scales could still tip in favour of Musk, as 57.4% have voted ‘Yes’ while 42.6% have voted ‘No’.

The poll is scheduled to close around 11. 20 am on Monday, although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down if the poll results said he should.

Musk does have a history of making big decisions based on results of Twitter polls.

Last month, Donald Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated after 51.8% of user voted ‘Yes’ on Musk’s Twitter poll asking if the former president should be brought back to the platform.

The poll comes after Twitter’s Sunday policy update, which prohibited accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social media firms and content that contains links or usernames for rival platforms.

Minutes before the poll, Musk apologized and tweeted ‘Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes’.

A few hours later, Twitter’s official handle for safety started a poll asking users if the platform should have a policy preventing accounts advertising other social media platforms on Twitter.

The policy update would impact content from social media platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, along with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post while allowing cross-content posting, Twitter support said in a tweet.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently invested in social media platform Nostr, replied to the Twitter support post with one word: ‘Why?’.

In a reply to another user posting about the Nostr promotion ban, Dorsey said, ‘doesn’t make sense’.

Short video-platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, was not included in the list.

Last week, Twitter abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group formed in 2016 to advise the social media platform on site decisions.

The policy change follows other chaotic actions at Twitter since the CEO of Tesla, bought the social network.

Since taking over Twitter, Musk has fired top management and laid off about half of its workforce, while seesawing on how much to charge for subscription service Twitter Blue.

Musk also suspended the accounts of several journalists over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane.

On Friday, Musk reinstated the accounts after criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and several journalism organizations, with some saying the microblogging platform was jeopardizing press freedom.

Replying to one Twitter user’s comment on a possible change in CEO, Musk said ‘There is no successor’.

Musk told a Delaware court last month that he would reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the company.

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So far, a majority has voted ‘Yes’.