Elon Musk offers college student US$5,000 to take down Twitter account tracking his private jet, but teen has other ideas - The Independent Singapore News

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It’s not a bad way to make some money, but we have to say it’s hardly a good one either. Mr Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old college freshman in the US is the owner of 15 flight-tracking accounts that follow famous people, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. His @ElonJet account has amassed the …

It’s not a bad way to make some money, but we have to say it’s hardly a good one either.

His @ElonJet account has amassed the most followers — almost 83,000 by the time it first caught the Tesla’ founder’s attention last year.The teenager programmed bots to analyse data and send out a tweet every time the private jets owned by the famous people depart or land.“Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” the DM from the billionaire read.

 

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