Elon Musk admits having 'cheesy secret Instagram account' but not a Twitter one

dailystar.co.uk:

Elon Musk’s “Twitter buddy” Pranay Pathole joked that the SpaceX boss was secretly running his social media feed for him, Musk has revealed that he does have a secret Instagram account – but not a Twitter one.The billionaire is a keen Twitter user – with some of his wilder pronouncements causing serious fluctuations in the stock price of his electric car company Tesla.There’s even been talk of him buying the $44billion company – although he’s reportedly getting cold feet after doubts emerged about the platform’s true number of users.He recently said – on Twitter of course – that while he was still committed to buying Twitter, the deal was “temporarily on hold“.Pranay, who became a Twitter celebrity after offering Musk some advice about upgrading the software that controls the windscreen wipers on Tesla’s cars, playfully tweeted yesterday: “Many people think that Elon Musk runs my Twitter account, and it's true.“He's a super busy guy, building rockets, making life multi-planetary, building futuristic electric vehicles, digging tunnels.

And somehow he finds time to run multiple Twitter accounts…”A few hours later, the world’s richest man replied, saying that he didn’t even have a second anonymous “burner” Twitter account.But, Musk confessed: “I do have a cheesy secret Instagram account, so I can click on links that friends send me”.There are dozens of fake or “parody” Elon Musk accounts, but few of them have anything like the social media reach as the real Tesla boss, who is closing in on 100million Twitter followers.Pranay, 23, has gained a sizeable following through his association with the billionaire too, after Twitter users noticed how frequently Musk replied to his tweets, over 160,000 of them followed him.“When Elon.