Elon Musk, the world's richest man, who made Pune-based student Pranay Pathole a Twitter celebrity, is now looking to make more Indian followers famous among his over 108 million fans on the micro-blogging platform he aims to buy, and another Pune-based student Vaibhav Balghare has caught his attention.
Musk recently responded to Balghare, a 22-year-old computer engineering student, who is into coding and cloud computing.
A student of Suman Ramesh Tulsiani Technical Campus -- Faculty of Engineering, Balghare told IANS that he never thought Musk would reply to him.
"That was a sweet moment for me," said Balghare, who aspires to become a cloud engineer in the future.
Everything changed for Balghare when he, with a Twitter handle @NASAEarthMars, asked Musk how he caught "that employee who leaked the confidential data of Tesla and sold it to the news outlet?" in 2008.
Responding to the tweet, Musk said: "That is quite an interesting story. We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker."
A Twitter user reacted: "U did not take any legal action?"
"Too busy trying to survive at the time," Musk replied.
Another follower asked Musk what finally happened to those employees.
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"They were invited to further their career elsewhere," Musk replied.
To date, Balghare tweet received 614 likes and 31 retweets.
"I have been a fan of Elon Musk for a long time. If I get a chance to meet him, I will surely be there," Balghare said.
