Elon Musk has described running Twitter as "quite painful" and "a rollercoaster" in a live interview with the BBC.

The multibillionaire also said if the right buyer came along, he would sell the company.

Twitter was purchased by Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, last October for $44 billion.

The interview took place at the company's headquarters in San Francisco and addressed his work habits, misinformation, and the huge layoffs.

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.

During the conversation with BBC, Musk tried defending his running of the company.

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".

Talking about his time at Twitter, Musk said: "It's not been boring. It's been quite a rollercoaster."

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.

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.

Musk told the BBC that things are "reasonably well" and that "the site works" and that usage is growing.

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."

He also addressed his controversial tweets saying, "Have I shot myself in the foot with tweets multiple times? Yes."

"I think I should not tweet after 3am," he added.

Twitter is now "roughly breaking even" Musk said while discussing its finances, as majority of the advertisers have returned.

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.

He acknowledged that he did not personally fire everyone, saying, "It's not possible to talk with that many people face to face."
The exit of many Twitter engineers following Musk’s purchase of the company has raised questions about the platform's stability.

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.