Teen who was tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet on Twitter, got an offer of $ 5,000 to shut it down
Elon Musk has offered $5,000 to a young man to stop tracking his private jet due to his safety concerns. This young college student was tracking the private jets of Tesla and SpaceX CEOs and several high-profile figures using publicly available data. In November 2021, Musk reached out to the account’s owner, 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, about his concerns rising from the Twitter account Elon Musk’s Jet (@ElonJet). But, Sweeney turned down his offer and instead asked for $50,000 . Sweeney said that with this money he would pay his school fees and also buy a car.
@ElonJet That’s one of the 15 flight-tracking accounts Sweeney created. Each of these handles follows a high-profile person, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
The conversation between Musk and Sweeney took place on Twitter via Direct Message (DM). Musk pressured Sweeney to first try to figure out how Sweeney set up bots to track his planes and what he earned by operating them.
According to Protocol, @ElonJet is one of 15 flight-tracking accounts created by Sweeney. Each of these handles follows a high-profile person, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. But the @ElonJet handle dedicated to tracking Musk’s plane has the most followers (over 115,000 at the time of writing).
After all, Musk has offered Sweeney $5,000 to shut down this Twitter handle. A New York Post report informed that Sweeney has demanded $50,000 to close the handle. “This [amount] would be great support for college [fees] and probably give me a chance to buy a car, maybe even a Tesla Model 3 electric car,” he says.
Musk at first said he would consider Sweeney’s offer, but later said it was “not fair” to pay to close the handle. When asked about receiving Direct Messages from Musk, Sweeney told the New York Post that it was “awesome, but kinda scary.” He said he would be interested in working for one of Musk’s companies in the future, possibly for an internship.
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