Apparently, Elon Musk uses a number of alt profiles on Twitter, mainly to track the platforms' features and to keep an eye on what people say about him. One of the accounts that he uses as a burner, was stolen from a user by Twitter.
Apparently, Elon Musk uses a number of alt profiles on Twitter, mainly to track the platforms' features and to keep an eye on what people say about him. One of the accounts that he uses as a burner, was stolen from a user by Twitter.
Elon Musk recently revealed one of his burner profiles, or secret profiles that he uses to test Twitter’s features and possibly to keep track of what people are saying about him. A new report has now surfaced that revealed the ridiculously wild story about how Musk got his alt account.
One of Musk’s confirmed burner profiles is “@e” a very old and rare form of profile, that was made when single-character user names were still allowed on the Platform. Rest assured, “@e” must have been one of the very first accounts that was made on the platform.
Zoe Schiffer of Platformer, in a tweet, has revealed that the person to whom it originally belonged to, had no intention of giving it up for Musk. However, when Musk took over Twitter in November last year, he asked the engineers at Twitter to take the profile away from the original user, and hand it over to him. The engineers complied.
Before the account is a high-value account, mainly because of its single-character username, it was often the target of hackers and was often suspended because of suspicious log int activity.
After one such attack, Twitter simply refused to let the original owner have the account back, and instead chose to give it to Musk as he requested.
Interestingly, after the account was taken away from its original user, it had only three followers – NASA, an American magazine called LAist, and Elon Musk.
Musk’s burner account may not be his only one.
Earlier this week, a screenshot tweeted by Musk’s primary account had the avatar of another account, and Twitter users identified “@Ermnmusk” as the likely profile.
At first sight, everything appears to be normal. The account’s header reads “Elon Test,” and the majority of the entries are harmless.
However, “@Ermnmusk’s” answers contain some weird content. At times, it seems to replicate Musk’s own quirky humour, and at times, it impersonates his son.
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