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Elon Musk: Owning Twitter has been a "rollercoaster"

The Twitter application on a digital device [Gregory Bull, AP]

Twitter Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk now says he only bought the platform because he had to, while describing owning the social media firm as 'quite painful and a rollercoaster'.

Musk, who granted a last-minute interview to BBC at the Twitter headquarters on Wednesday, reiterated that he has no plans for selling the company even if he got an offer matching what he paid for it. He also added that, presently, the company is roughly breaking even, although he didn't back his statement.

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