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Followed by Elon Musk

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3 min readNov 7, 2025

Elon Musk standing beside a Tesla — Elon Musk next to a Telsla Model S 2011: Wikimedia Creative Commons

I just checked my notifications this morning, and right at the top is “Elon Reeve Musk is following you” and “Elon Reeve Musk subscribed to get your stories by email.”

Quite a surprise if it is the real Elon Musk and not an AI bot or something. The profile looks kind of legit if he has just joined Medium and shows:

It isn’t impossible to believe that Elon may have chosen to follow me, as I do share most of my pieces on X, and am one of the world's best writers 🤣, but forgive me for still being a little sceptical.

This comes after being also followed just a couple of days ago by author James Patterson! You don’t believe me? Well, take a look:

Back in the 90s, when I published women's humor collections, I learned that I was in Gloria Steinem's rolodex.

At the time, that was a big deal.

Now most folks probably don't know who Gloria is.

Or, for that matter, what a rolodex is.

John - the Barack Obama goal is an admirable one. I hope you can tick that one off the list along with these two famous fellows you mention in your article here. I think I’m pretty sure that the most famous person following me is you. Might be…