Elon Musk admits he has ‘too much work on his plate’ as Twitter controversies grow

Elon Musk has admitted that he has 'too much work on his plate' as controversies around Twitter grow.

It's not quite been the plain sailing I think the tech billionaire was hoping for when he purchased the social media site for $44 billion a couple of weeks ago.

Many users have been concerned about how his focus on free speech could impact the site, with fears that it may lead to extremist views being amplified.

Then, there has also been the chaos surrounding his new blue tick subscription plan, which allowed users to pay $8 a month to buy verification.

However, Musk was forced to stop this over the weekend after people began buying the blue ticks and setting up parody accounts of notable figures, such as George W. Bush, Mark Zuckerberg, BP, Pepsi, and even Musk himself.

That's all before you mention the 'Official' markers that were rolled out, then pulled, then rolled out again last week.

In summary, it's been a bit of a slog.

And speaking at a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Musk said: "I have too much work on my plate that is for sure."

When asked about his thoughts on business leaders in Asia wanting to be the 'Elon Musk of the East', the Tesla boss warned that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

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"I'd be careful what you wish for. I'm not sure how many people would actually like to be me," he told the auditorium from a screen.

"They would like to be what they imagine being me, which is not the same thing as actually being me. The amount that I torture myself is next level, frankly."

This comes after it was reported that Musk told staff that Twitter might actually cease to exist all together because the social media network faces potential bankruptcy.

According to The Guardian, Musk said ‘bankruptcy isn’t out of the question’ when addressing employees for the first time this week.

The world’s richest man is said to have written via email: “Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.”

UNILAD has approached Twitter for comment.

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The publication also reported that Yoel Roth - the head of safety and integrity - has also left the company, as have top security officials Damien Kieran, Marianne Fogarty and head of Lea Kissner.

While the current head of legal, Alex Spiro, supposedly claimed that Musk is 'willing to take on a huge amount of risk' because he 'puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC’.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Musk, there's no doubt about that.