The Twitter feature was “quite painful” Elon Musk said in an interview with the BBC likening it to “roller coaster”.

At the same time, the multi-billionaire businessman stated that would sell the company if the right person came along.

Elon Musk, who also runs carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, bought Twitter for $44bn (£35.4bn) last October.

Musk was also asked about mass layoffs, misinformation and work habits.

Asked if he regretted buying Twitter, the world’s second-richest man said “the pain level is extremely high, it’s not some kind of party.” Referring to all this time that he is at the “helm” of Twitter, he said: “It wasn’t boring. It looks like a roller coaster.” As he said, the last few months have been really stressful, but he still feels he did the right thing by buying the company. At the same time, he added that things are going well, based on logic, and that the use of the platform has increased.

In fact, he admitted that he sometimes tripped himself up with some controversial tweets and that’s why, as he said, “I think I shouldn’t tweet after 3 in the morning.”

For mass layoffs

Discussing Twitter’s finances, Elon Musk said the company is now in good shape as most of its advertisers have returned. On the mass layoffs he said reducing the workforce from about 8,000 employees at the time he bought the company to about 1,500 was not an easy task.

He admitted he didn’t fire them all in person, saying: “It’s not possible to talk to so many people face to face.”

The departure of several Twitter engineers since Musk bought the company has raised concerns about the stability of the platform. locker, mom, gym, super

He acknowledged some glitches, including outages on the site, but said the outages didn’t last long and the site is currently working fine.

As for fake accounts, Musk said he argued that there is now less misinformation on Twitter after the acquisition and that its efforts to delete bots – automated accounts – will reduce fake news.