“A Reddit user had posted a query and I was intrigued. It was related to automatic wipers. I found that very interesting. I thought I could tweet it to Elon. And if he replies, then maybe he could consider that feature for Tesla. And, within a couple of minutes of tweeting, he had responded! I was just blown away by seeing him respond to me,” said Pathole.
The 23-year-old has a massive following on the microblogging platform that includes some of the most influential names from around the world. His pinned tweet about Mars, to which Musk had responded, has received 28K retweets and some 138K likes and counting. His GitHub profile describes him as “Machine learning engineer”, “Nerding out about Space and Rockets on Twitter.”
