Elon Musk admitted he should probably stop tweeting at 3:00 a.m.: 'Have I shot myself in the foot with tweets multiple times? Yes'

• Elon Musk admitted he has shot himself in the foot multiple times by tweeting late at night.
• In a BBC interview Wednesday, Musk said he should probably stop tweeting at 3:00 a.m.

Elon Musk has opened up about his erratic tweeting style saying he's shot himself in the foot with posts on the site in an interview with the BBC late Tuesday night.

The billionaire owner of Twitter sat down for a last minute candid interview with BBC correspondent James Clayton at Twitter's headquarters, in which he opened up about his takeover of Twitter, laying off employees, working habits and more.

Speaking about his posting habits on the platform he now owns, Musk said: "Have I shot myself in the foot multiple times? Yes.

"I think I should not tweet after 3:00 a.m. If you're gonna tweet something that maybe is controversial, save it as a draft then look at it the next day, and see if you still want to tweet it."

Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company, is a prolific Twitter user and is famed for his unfiltered tweeting style, which stands in stark contrast to other powerful CEOs and leaders.

His tweets often come late at night and in the early hours of the morning, and have frequently landed him in hot water.

He has tweeted about everything from his theories about life on Mars, to initiating feuds with the likes of Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Amazon founder CEO Jeff Bezos, and has even spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19.

Earlier this year, Musk was taken to trial in a class action lawsuit which pertained to a tweet he sent in 2018, which said he had "funding secured" to take his electric vehicles firm Tesla private. The suit alleged the tweet was misleading to shareholders.

"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured," he tweeted to his 22 million Twitter followers at the time, but the deal never happened and shareholders accused him of manipulating Tesla's share price.

Musk who was ultimately cleared by a federal jury, said at the time: "Just because I tweet about something doesn't mean people believe it or will act accordingly."