Elon Musk attacks San Francisco mayor in row over Twitter bedrooms for 'tired employees'

Elon Musk has questioned the politician of San Francisco's "priorities" arsenic helium alleged the metropolis is much acrophobic astir Twitter unit sleeping successful the bureau than astir children suffering accidental overdoses.

The Twitter owner's outburst followed contention astir bedrooms appearing astatine the societal media site's bureau successful the northwest California city.

"Sad small conference-room sleeping quarters" person been installed, Forbes mag reported.

The accommodation features "unmade mattresses" and "drab curtains", it added.

Its quality is possibly to beryllium expected aft Musk told Twitter unit they needed to enactment "long hours astatine precocious intensity".

"Going forward, to physique a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and win successful an progressively competitory world, we volition request to beryllium highly hardcore," helium told them.

"This volition mean agelong hours astatine precocious intensity. Only exceptional show volition represent a passing grade."

Last month, Twitter staffer Esther Crawford said: "When your squad is pushing circular the timepiece to marque deadlines, sometimes you sleep wherever you work."

Musk appeared to corroborate the bedrooms' beingness aft section media picked up the story.

He tweeted: "So metropolis of SF attacks companies providing beds for bushed employees alternatively of making definite kids are harmless from fentanyl. Where are your priorities Mayor London Breed!?"

He attached an nonfiction from the San Francisco Chronicle which said a 10-month-old babe had suffered an accidental fentanyl overdose astatine a playground.

Paramedics administered overdose-reversing medicine and the youngster was discharged, the insubstantial added.

Ms Breed's spokesperson, Parisa Safarzadeh, said the mayor's bureau was investigating, but "thankfully a fatal incidental was avoided acknowledgment to the speedy effect of (emergency services)", the paper reported.

San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection is investigating a ailment astir the bedrooms, Forbes mag said.

It quoted Patrick Hannan, the department's communications director, arsenic saying: "We request to marque definite the gathering is being utilized arsenic intended."

In a abstracted development, Musk concisely mislaid his rubric of richest idiosyncratic successful the satellite connected Wednesday, again according to Forbes.

It said helium was concisely replaced by Bernard Arnault, main enforcement of luxury marque Louis Vuitton's genitor institution LVMH, and his family.

Musk's abbreviated dip successful presumption was caused by a steep driblet successful the worth of his involvement successful Tesla and the $44bn helium spent connected Twitter.