Musk tells BBC owning Twitter painful: In an interview with the BBC, Elon Musk described running Twitter as “quite painful” and “a rollercoaster.”
The multibillionaire businessman said that if the proper buyer presented themselves, he would sell the company.
The interview, which was broadcast live from Twitter HQ, covered his work habits, misinformation, and huge layoffs.
Twitter was purchased by Mr. Musk, who also owns Tesla Motors and SpaceX, in October for $44 billion (£35.4 billion).
Mr. Musk defended his management of the company during the session, in which he attempted to conduct the interview as much as the other way around.
The second-richest guy in the world responded, “Pain level has been extremely high, this hasn’t been some kind of party,” when asked if he had any regrets about purchasing Twitter.
Mr. Musk said of his early days in charge: “It hasn’t been dull. It has certainly been a rollercoaster.
Musk continued, saying it had been “really quite a stressful situation over the last several months,” but he insisted that he still believed purchasing the business was the best course of action.
He stated that things are “reasonably well” and that more people are using the site and that “the site works.”
He admitted that due to his workload, “I sometimes sleep in the office,” and that he also has a couch area in a library that “nobody goes to.”
And he also commented on his occasionally contentious tweets, asking: “Have I repeatedly wounded myself in the foot with tweets? Yes.”
He said, “I think I shouldn’t tweet after 3 in the morning.”
Completely view: Speaking with the BBC, Elon Musk
Reporters asked Mr. Musk about the decision to label the BBC as “government-funded media” on its primary Twitter account. He responded by saying, “I know the BBC is generally not thrilled about being labeled state media.”
The business contacted the social media behemoth earlier this week regarding the designation on the @BBC account in order to “as soon as possible” fix the situation.
“The BBC is independent and always has been. Through the licence fee, the British public provides our funding, it stated.
Mr. Musk said that Twitter was changing the BBC’s designation to “publicly-funded.” We’re attempting to be precise, he said.
Adding that the interview was “a good opportunity to ask some questions” and “to get some feedback on what we should be doing different,” Mr. Musk said, “I actually do have a lot of respect for the BBC.”
