Elon Musk's 'Indian Twitter friend' finally gets to meet him in Texas, shares pic

Texas, Aug 23: It was a dream come true for Pranay Pathole, the 24-year-old IT professional from Pune, India, who met his idol Elon Musk in Tesla's Texas factory. Musk and Pathole have been friends, though Twitter. They discuss about multiplantery travel, aliens, Mars, electric cars and all things rocket science.

On Monday, Pathole uploaded a picture capturing the moment he met his idol, Musk.

"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," tweeted Pathole.

The post has now went viral on social media with many netizens congratulating Pathole for meeting someone who is an inspiration to millions of people.

Since being posted the image has garnered 40.2K views with over 26.7k retweets.

Take a look at the twitter reaction

Musk and Pranay reportedly started over Pranay's tweet about Tesla's automatic windscreen wipers.

His tweet was addressed to Musk and interestingly, within a few minutes of his post, Musk responded to Pranay. "Fixed in next release," Musk had replied. And since then Musk and Pranay have been interacting regularly.

On August 2, Pathole asked Elon if he had read Nick Bostrom's paper "Astronomical Waste" and tweeted, "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."

Musk's promptly replied to his Indian Twitter pal-"That estimate seems high, but the point is valid."

Pranay, who hails from Pune, has over 1 lakh followers on the microblogging site.