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Two days ago, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if he should step down as the head of Twitter. He even said he will abide by the results so lo and behold, a majority of Twitter users voted yes and looks like he will do it.

Previously, we reported that Twitter introduced a new policy banning links to certain social media, including Facebook and Instagram on the platform. The move was subsequently met with criticism from Twitter users and now, the company has backtracked on that decision and deleted the new policy.

Today, Twitter has announced a bizarre decision to ban the free promotion of certain social media platforms on its own space. In other words, this means you won't be able to post and share other social network links anymore on Twitter.

Tesla has recently announced that a “Holiday Update” is rolling out to its cars, which most notably allows owners to play games from Steam in their Tesla vehicles. According to the company’s official Twitter account, Steam is now available on new Model S and Model X vehicles, though no specific car models were mentioned.

Besides relaunching the Twitter Blue subscription, the social media platform could soon allow users to type up to 4,000 characters in a tweet. It's worth mentioning that the current limit is 280, so it's a pretty big increment by the time it rolls out.

At the end of last month, Twitter decided to hold off on the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Allegedly, this was because Elon Musk didn't want to pay the 30% cut that the Apple App Store collects from all apps with transactions. However, it looks like the company will relaunch it soon.

Twitter is rolling out a new feature under the reign of Elon Musk. The CEO tweeted an announcement on the arrival of "a software update that will show your true account status". According to the report, it's said to be a feature that tells you if you're shadowbanned.

Previously, Elon Musk was quite "emotional" about Apple's alleged plan to remove Twitter from the Apple App Store. But it seems that it has been cleared out. This was after Musk had met up with Tim Cook recently.

Twitter has delayed the relaunch of its Twitter Blue subscription to make various other changes to the service, as well as to avoid paying Apple’s 30 per cent App Store cut. Moreover, the revamped Blue subscription may not be available as an in-app purchase on the Twitter iOS app when it relaunches on the Apple App Store.

Elon Musk might have figured out a solution to solve the Twitter Blue fiasco. The current Twitter CEO says that the company will implement a new manual authentication process, which he described as "painful, but necessary."