Floyd Mayweather? Harrison Ford? Bill Gates? He’s tracking them all
The teen who set up a Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet – and then demanded $50,000 from the billionaire – is now targeting other private jets belonging to the mega rich.
Jack Sweeney, 18, created the Twitter bot @ElonJet, which tracks Musk’s Gulfstream private jet across the world and posts real-time updates of its location.
This clearly rattled the Space X billionaire, who sent Sweeney a direct message when he discovered the account, pleading with the teen to delete it.
According to Sweeney, the message said: “Can you take this down? It is a security risk.
“I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.”
After a series of messages, which Sweeney has made public, Musk offered the teen a deal: “How about $5k for this account and generally helping make it harder for crazy people to track me?”
Entering negotiations, Sweeney replied: “Any chance to up that to $50K? It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car, maybe even a [Tesla] Model 3.”
After considering the offer, Musk clearly decided he wasn’t that desperate to get the account down, replying that it “doesn’t feel right to pay to shut this down.”
https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney/status/1487257570976976897
So, to get Musk back to the negotiating table, Sweeney made the messages public.
He told Insider: “I’ve done a lot of work on this and 5k is not enough [to make up for] the fun I have in this, working on it.
“He went the opposite way of me, so why wouldn’t I go the opposite way of him?”
It’s not just Musk that Sweeney wants to keep tabs on though.
He has set up about a dozen other flight bot accounts that track the travels of other billionaires.
There’s Floyd Mayweather…
https://twitter.com/CelebJets/status/1488428938431016961
Bill Gates…
https://twitter.com/GatesJets/status/1488334361502044162
Jeff Bezos…
https://twitter.com/BezosJets/status/1487333225362071553
And many more…
https://twitter.com/CelebJets/status/1450255079131521024
Sweeney says he set up the Musk tracker out of respect for the billionaire and that he’s actually a fan of his.
“I knew he had the jet, and I just knew it would reveal what business is going on and where he is going and stuff,” he said.
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