Elon Musk committed a Twitter faux pas by accidentally tweeting his cell phone number to Oculus CTO John Carmack. “Do you have a sec to talk? My cell is ...” Musk wrote from his account on Tuesday to John Carmack, the CTO of Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus. The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer quickly deleted the post.

The billionaire intended to share the number with Oculus Virtual Reality (VR) Co-founder John Carmack late on Tuesday perhaps as a private direct message, asking him to give a call.

Musk has 16.7 million followers, and accidentally tweeted it for all. Musk later deleted the tweet and redirected the number, which now plays a recorded message from the video game 'God of War', The Telegraph reported on Wednesday.

Numerous people who tried dialling the phone number reported hearing a voicemail message from the video game God of War: "By the Gods you've done it," it said. “Somehow you've found your way here to me. I offer you my congratulations and my respect.” 

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Some observers speculated that Musk was aiming to recruit Carmack. After all, Tesla makes some of the most high-tech cars on the road today. Adding VR technology to its options isn't too much of a stretch. The Facebook executive didn't directly address Musk's tweet but said on Twitter that "I spent over a decade building rockets and founded the Commercial Spaceflight Federation."

Carmack is a video-game industry legend, coming to prominence as a co-founder of iD Software, the company behind game classics including "Doom" and "Quake." In 2013, Carmack joined Oculus and stayed with the company even after Facebook's purchased it for $2.3 billion in 2014. In January 2015, Musk tweeted photos of a SpaceX drone-landing ship to Carmack and said his motivation was to get the programmer back into aerospace technology, TechCrunch reported at the time.