@ChristiJunior @GVRon theory: investors and executives he hired to run twitter are starting to get nervous about him constantly making stupid decisions and alienating whole swaths of the userbase. this latest change caused 200k people to join mastadon alone, the bean counters are sweating. so this is a way for Elon to stop down and appear as if it's his decision or he's listening to "the will of the people"

alternatively the poll is rigged and will be hardstuck on No no matter how many people vote yes