ELON Musk has revealed that he has a secret Instagram account.
In a tweet on Monday, the billionaire Tesla boss said that he uses the covert profile to look at links sent to him by his pals.
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Musk also shared that he does not have a second, “burner” account on Twitter.
Burner accounts are social media profiles set up by people in secret so that they can post anonymously.
Musk’s tweet was a response to Pranay Pathole, an Indian software developer who the mogul regularly interacts with on the platform.
Pathole is a Musk fan boy and regularly posts about him, leading to tongue-in-cheek allegations that Musk runs his account.
The developer, who has 160,000 Twitter followers, joked that the world’s richest man does indeed run his profile.
“It’s TRUE,” Pathole said. “He’s a super busy guy … and somehow he finds time to run multiple Twitter accounts.”
Musk responded: “Haha I don’t even have a burner twitter account! I do have a cheesy secret Instagram account, so I can click on links that friends send me.”
Unsurprisingly, the SpaceX boss stopped short of giving any detail on his private Instagram account.
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Musk’s only public social media presence is his Twitter account, which at the time of writing has more than 94million followers.
The mogul’s companies Tesla and SpaceX are active on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and more.
Musk struck up an online friendship with Pathole in 2018 after the techie influencer asked a question about Tesla’s windscreen wipers.
The duo regularly banter on the app about everything from Tesla’s presence in India to Musk’s $44billion takeover of Twitter.
It’s been a busy few weeks for the world’s richest man.
Last Friday, it emerged that a SpaceX flight attendant had accused Musk of exposing himself to her and asking for sex back in 2016.
The attendant was reportedly a member of the cabin crew for SpaceX’s corporate jet fleet when the alleged misconduct occurred.
SpaceX reportedly paid the staffer $250,000 as part of a separation agreement in 2018. Musk denies the allegations.
Elsewhere, the mogul is wrestling with Twitter over his hostile takeover of the company.
Musk has said that the deal will not go ahead until Twitter verifies the proportion of its users that are automated bots.
Twitter has said it will force the purchase through regardless.
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