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Tony Owusu

Elon Musk May Have Accidentally Revealed His Burner Account With an Ill-Advised Screenshot

It appears Elon Musk has more than one persona on Twitter after internet sleuths found what looks like his burner account on the social media platform.

Less than a week after Musk got rid of the legacy verified accounts from old Twitter, his unverified, anonymous account was discovered from a screenshot he shared during a presentation for Twitter subscribers who pay $4 a month for his exclusive content. 

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An alternate account with a picture of a young boy holding a rocket was seen in the screenshot, which led social media sleuths to discover Elon Test.

The account was deleted, but magically returned to the internet Tuesday morning. 

If the account is his, he didn't tweet much.

Elon Test followed 34 accounts and tweeted only 23 times between November 12, when the account became active, and Tuesday, April 25. 

Most of the tweets from the account (18) came on the day it was created. The most bizarre was a question that was posed to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. 

If this is actually Elon Musk -- media relations was one of the first things Musk got rid of when he took over the company -- it is kind of weird that the 51 year-old billionaire is pretending to not be old enough to get into a nightclub.

The account was dormant until Monday when it liked a tweet dividing the Median Household income in the U.S. by ethnic group that attracted the type of racism one might expect on Twitter. 

And a tweet from Miley Cyrus. 

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