Elon Musk says Twitter locked his account, thinking it was hacked

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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk arrives at ‘Revenge Of The Electric Car’ Premiere held at Landmark Nuart Theatre on October 21, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. 

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said Twitter had locked his account thinking it had been hacked.

“Twitter thought I got hacked & locked my account haha,” Musk tweeted late on Monday.

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The tweet did not clarify the reason or the duration for which the account was locked.