Musk talks of Twitter 'rollercoaster' in BBC interview

Elon Musk has said moving Twitter has been "quite painful" and "a rollercoaster", successful a last-minute interrogation with the BBC.

The multi-billionaire entrepreneur besides said that helium would merchantability the institution if the close idiosyncratic came along.

Mr Musk, who besides runs car shaper Tesla and rocket steadfast SpaceX, bought Twitter for $44bn (£35.4bn) successful October.

The interrogation was broadcast unrecorded from Twitter's offices successful San Francisco, and watched by much than 3 million.

In the speech - successful which Mr Musk tried to bash the interviewing arsenic overmuch arsenic the different mode astir - Mr Musk defended his moving of the company.

Asked whether helium had immoderate regrets astir buying Twitter, the world's 2nd richest antheral said the "pain level has been highly high, this hasn't been immoderate benignant of party".

Talking astir his clip astatine the helm truthful far, Mr Musk said: "It's not been boring. It's been rather a rollercoaster."

It has been "really rather a stressful concern implicit the past respective months", helium added, but said helium inactive felt that buying the institution was the close happening to do.

He said things are going "reasonably well", stating that usage of the tract is up and "the tract works".

The workload means that "I sometimes slumber successful the office", helium said, adding that helium has a spot connected a sofa successful a room "that cipher goes to".

And helium besides addressed his sometimes arguable tweets saying: "Have I changeable myself successful the ft with tweets aggregate times? Yes."

"I deliberation I should not tweet aft 3am," helium added.

Asked astir the determination to adhd a statement to the BBC's main Twitter relationship describing it arsenic "government funded media", Mr Musk said: "I cognize the BBC is mostly not thrilled astir being labelled authorities media."

Earlier this week, the corp contacted the societal media elephantine implicit the designation connected the @BBC relationship to resoluteness the contented "as soon arsenic possible".

"The BBC is, and ever has been, independent. We are funded by the British nationalist done the licence fee," it said.

Discussing Twitter's finances, Mr Musk said the institution is present "roughly breaking even", arsenic astir of its advertisers person returned.

He besides said that cutting the workforce from conscionable nether 8,000 astatine the clip helium bought the steadfast to astir 1,500 had not been easy.

He admitted helium did not occurrence everybody successful idiosyncratic - saying: "It's not imaginable to speech with that galore radical look to face."

The exit of galore of engineers since Mr Musk bought the institution has raised concerns astir the stableness of the platform.

He acknowledged immoderate glitches, including outages connected the site. But helium said that the outages person not been for precise agelong and the tract was presently moving fine.

On the contented of bequest verified bluish ticks connected the platform, Mr Musk said they would beryllium removed from accounts by the extremity of adjacent week.

"I really bash person a batch of respect for the BBC," Mr Musk added, stating that the interrogation was "a bully accidental to inquire immoderate questions" and "to get immoderate feedback connected what we should beryllium doing different".

Mr Musk has an estimated idiosyncratic luck of astir $190bn, making him the world's 2nd richest person, according to the Forbes billionaires list.