Bill Gates has secondary social media accounts for "messing around".

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

The Microsoft founder admitted he doesn't spent much time on social media as he prefers to go to direct sources for news, but he does have 'secret' profiles on sites like Twitter and Facebook where he doesn't have to be "official".

Speaking to Andrew Ross Sorkin on invitation-only Clubhouse app, he said: "I have a Twitter [account] that I just mess around on, and then I have my official Twitter account.

"And that's true on most of the [social media] services. There's the official me, and then there's the 'messing around' me."

Meanwhile, the billionaire software developer also opened up on Netflix and admitted he recently sat down to read a book but ended up being distracted by French thriller 'Lupin', which stars Omar Sy as a man who becomes a jewel thief to avenge his father's death.

He added: "Next thing I knew four hours have gone by.

"I really let myself go to seed that night, and I was kind of laughing at myself, I don't usually do that, but they sure make it easy. You just sit there and the next episode is up and running."


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