Elon Musk’s Twitter poll says he should step down as chief executive – as it happened

Elon Musk says he will honour the results of a Twitter poll asking whether the should resign as head of the social media platform

Call it Chekhov's Jet: a Twitter account placed on the mantelpiece in act one must surely go off in act five.

Seven days after buying the social network he tweeted that his commitment to free speech extended even to not banning the account following my plane". Six weeks later, his reversal of that policy set in motion a series of events that seems increasingly likely to end in his dramatic departure as chief executive of Twitter.