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Vox populi, vox dei — Elon Musk loves polling people on X. Here's a list of polls he's done, and what happened after.

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Elon Musk started a new political party after conducting a poll on his social media platform X.

Musk had run polls on whether he should sell his Tesla stock or step down as X's CEO.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has conducted several polls on X over the years .

Musk eventually acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022 and renamed X in July 2023 .

Musk 's poll received over 17.5 million votes, and nearly 58% voted "Yes" In May 2023 , Musk announced that he had hired Linda Yaccarino , an executive at NBCUniversal as X's new CEO.

Musk 's most recent poll took place on July 4 , when he asked his followers if they wanted him to start a new political party.

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