<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Elon Musk has described running Twitter as "quite painful" and "a rollercoaster" in a live interview with the BBC.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The multibillionaire also said if the right buyer came along, he would sell the company.</div><div><br></div><div>Twitter was purchased by Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, last October for $44 billion.</div><div><br></div><div>The interview took place at the company's headquarters in San Francisco and addressed his work habits, misinformation, and the huge layoffs.</div><div><br></div><div>Musk acknowledged that the only reason he followed through with the Twitter takeover was because a judge was about to order him to buy the company.</div><div><br></div><div>During the conversation with BBC, Musk tried defending his running of the company.</div><div><br></div><div>When asked if he regretted purchasing Twitter, the second-richest man in the world said the "pain level has been extremely high, this hasn't been some kind of party".</div><div><br></div><div>Talking about his time at Twitter, Musk said: "It's not been boring. It's been quite a rollercoaster."</div><div><br></div><div>It has been "really quite a stressful situation over the last several months," he added, but he admitted that buying the company was the right decision.</div><div><br></div><div>Around the beginning of 2022, Musk increased his stake in Twitter and offered to buy the company. However, after he attempted to back out of the agreement, Twitter sued him.</div><div><br></div><div>Musk told the BBC that things are "reasonably well" and that "the site works" and that usage is growing.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to his workload, he admitted, "I sometimes sleep in the office", and he also has a sofa area in a library "that nobody goes to."</div><div><br></div><div>He also addressed his controversial tweets saying, "Have I shot myself in the foot with tweets multiple times? Yes."</div><div><br></div><div>"I think I should not tweet after 3am," he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Twitter is now "roughly breaking even" Musk said while discussing its finances, as majority of the advertisers have returned.</div><div><br></div><div>It had not been easy cutting the workforce from just under 8,000 at the time he bought the firm to about 1,500, Musk added.</div><div><br></div><div>He acknowledged that he did not personally fire everyone, saying, "It's not possible to talk with that many people face to face."</div><div><br></div><div>The exit of many Twitter engineers following Musk’s purchase of the company has raised questions about the platform's stability.</div><div><br></div><div>He admitted certain issues, such as site outages, but claimed that they had only lasted a brief period of time and that everything was presently great.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>