Musk made a lot of changes to Twitter in his first few weeks, and Donaldson wasn't afraid to call him out when he disagreed.
On December 18, 2022, Musk made a characteristically trollish poll on his account, asking users to vote on whether he should step down as CEO. "I will abide by the results of this poll," he said.
Donaldson replied a few hours later, saying: "If you're going to keep doing stuff like this, yes," with a vomiting emoji.
He shared a link to and a screenshot of a new policy Musk had put in place over that weekend, which prohibited users from linking to other sites such as Facebook, Instagram, or Mastodon.
"We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms," the policy said. "However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter."
Musk didn't respond publicly to Donaldson, but the policy was retracted.
Donaldson then asked again to control Twitter, tweeting on December 22, 2022: "Can I be the new Twitter CEO?"
"It's not out of the question," Musk replied.