Online sleuths think they’ve found Elon Musk’s bizarre burner Twitter account
A screenshot might have given away Elon Musk’s second Twitter account featuring some rather creepy tweets.
Online sleuths think they’ve found the billionaire’s burner Twitter account based on a screenshot he shared on Monday night.
The Twitter chief had tweeted about the platform’s ‘subscriptions’ feature with a screengrab of his own account which showed that almost 25,000 people were subscribing to his account.
A closer look at the image revealed that Musk was signed into another Twitter account whose profile picture was visible alongside his normal account.
The profile picture shows a child holding a replica of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft.
Using that image, people quickly matched it to a Twitter account called ‘Elon Test’ with the username @ErmnMusk.
While it’s still a hunch, Musk appeared to confirm it by replying to a tweet about the secret account.
‘You’d never guess it’s me!’ tweeted Musk in response to ‘DogeDesigner’, one of his apparent fans.
A reverse image search on the account’s profile picture returned no results, meaning that the it might not be used elsewhere on the internet.
If it is Musk’s second anonymous account, its activity has been termed bizarre and creepy.
For example, the account appears to role-play as a child, posting about not being old enough to go to nightclubs.
One tweet reads ‘I will finally turn 3 on May 4th’, which checks out as the birthdate of X, Musk’s child with the singer Grimes.
People also think the image on the account resembles pictures of X that Musk has shared in the past.
The account appears to have been created last November, just weeks after Musk completed his purchase of Twitter.
While it does not tweet much, the account replies to tweets on some of Musk’s favourite topics like Tesla, cryptocurrency and AI.
In one tweet, @ErmnMusk replied ‘Wow!’ to a CNBC tweet about a test of Tesla’s self-driving capabilities.
The account also replied to a tweet from Elon Musk sharing a meme about former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
Some of the more disturbing tweets include sexually suggestive content like the one replying to Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor asking if he liked ‘Japanese girls’.
Another tweet was in response to a post about FTX employee Caroline Ellison which said ‘I [heart] librarians’.
Other tweets complained about not having enough followers, pleading ‘For the love of god, can someone follow me’.
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