Twitter proclaimed Sunday it would no longer allow users to promote their accounts on several rival social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram, but the site’s mercurial owner Elon seemed to backtrack on the new policy just hours later.

The sudden shift in the rules was the newest in a series of contentious changes made by Musk since he took over the company in October — upheaval that has led a growing number of users to encourage followers to view their posts on other sites.

The random billionaire even put his future as Twitter’s CEO to a vote.

“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he tweeted, asking the site’s users to click yes or no.

“I will abide by the results of this poll,” he added, with the vote open until the early hours of Monday.

Twitter had proclaimed that the company would “no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms.”

“At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of banned 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL,” the company explained in a statement.

Users would thus be barred, for example, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter said.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey questioned the new policy with a one-word tweet: “Why?”