Twitter Suspends Musk's 23YO Indian Friend Pranay Pathole's Account For Violations, Later Restores It?
Pranay Pathole, 23, met Elon Musk, the world's richest person, in August this year at the Texas Gigafactory and described him as humble and down to earth.
More than three months after the world¡¯s richest person, Elon Musk, met his Indian ¡®twitter friend¡¯ Pranay Pathole, in August, the 23-year-old Pune youngster¡¯s Twitter account was reportedly suspended yesterday.
As per a report by IANS, Twitter suspended the account of Pranay Pathole on Thursday. The microblogging platform also suspended Twitter Owners Silicon Valley's account for violating its policies. Pathole's account was also suspended for 'violating' Twitter rules.
Reacting to the suspension, Elon Musk tweeted, "Digging into this now."
Digging into this now
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2022
Account Restored After Brief Suspension
However, Pranay Pathole's twitter account has been restored now, and he tweeted about Elon Musk driving the Tesla semi truck today.
Elon driving Tesla Semi Truck ? @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/fum4izXKNU
¡ª Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) December 2, 2022
When Pranay Met Elon Musk
23YO Pranay had met Musk at the Gigafactory in Texas in August and shared a glimpse of their meeting with the billionaire on the microblogging site. Pune based Pranay works as a software developer for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
It was so great meeting you @elonmusk at the Gigafactory Texas. Never seen such a humble and down-to-earth person. You're an inspiration to the millions ? pic.twitter.com/TDthgWlOEV
¡ª Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) August 22, 2022
In August, upon uploading a picture with billionaire Elon Musk, Pranay Pathole wrote on Twitter, "It was so great meeting you @elonmusk at the Gigafactory Texas. Never seen such a humble and down-to-earth person. You're an inspiration to the millions."
Elon Musk & Pranay Pathole¡¯s Friendship
Musk and Pranay had reportedly been friends on social media since 2018. Their friendship reportedly started over Pranay's tweet about Tesla's automatic windscreen wipers.
Not only was the 23 year old¡¯s tweet addressed to Musk, but, interestingly, even the billionaire and world¡¯s richest person had responded to Pranay within a few minutes.
"Fixed in next release," Musk had replied. And since then Musk and Pranay have been interacting regularly.
23-year-old Pranay, who hails from Pune, has a massive following on Twitter. He has over 1.98 lakh followers on Twitter. His pinned tweet is regarding the meet up with Musk.
Earlier in August, Pathole had asked Elon if he had a chance to read Nick Bostrom's paper "Astronomical Waste" and wrote on the microblogging site: "This essentially states that every second we delay expanding into space, we lose at least one hundred trillion potential human lives that could have lived."
That estimate seems high, but the point is valid
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 2, 2022
And the world¡¯s richest person Musk had replied to his Indian Twitter friend-"That estimate seems high, but the point is valid."
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