Elon Musk is taking aim at critics amid backlash over his hostile conference call earlier this week.   

The Tesla CEO (TSLA.O) took to Twitter Friday morning to defend himself, two days after the call in which Musk cut off analysts and became defensive over questions about the electric-carmaker’s finances.  

Musk began his tweet storm by saying the “dry” questions weren’t asked by investors, but by side-sell analysts “trying to justify their Tesla short thesis.”

 

He then went on to explain why he ignored some of the analysts’ questions on the call and why he called one of them “boneheaded,” before admitting it was “foolish” of him to ignore the questions once the call was live.

Musk’s behaviour on the call caused Tesla’s stock to fall more than five per cent Thursday to close at US$284.45. The shares were down about 0.50 per cent at 10 a.m. ET on Friday.