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Elon Musk offered a teenager $5,000 to stop tracking his private jet.

Elon Musk offered a teenager $5000 to stop tracking his private jet.
Elon Musk offered a teenager $5000 to stop tracking his private jet.

Elon Musk offered a teenager $5000 to stop tracking his private jet,Elon Musk isn’t happy about the jet tracker

The SpaceX founder reached out to 19-year-old Jack Sweeney to urge him to shut down his Twitter account ElonJet – which uses a bot to track the billionaire’s plane and records when and where it takes off or lands and the duration of each trip – but the student rejected the offer and asked for $50,000 or an internship instead.

The college freshman – who has several other flight bot accounts, including those tracking the travels of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos – received a direct message from Musk expressing his security concerns.

Musk wrote in November: “Can you take this down? It’s a security risk.

“I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.”

After a series of messages, the businessman then offered a deal: “How about $5k for this account and generally helping make it harder for crazy people to track me?”

The student attempted to negotiate and said: “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.”

Musk promised to think about the offer, but ultimately declined, telling Sweeney: “It doesn’t feel right to pay to shut this down”.

Sweeney decided to go public with their exchanges in a bid to reopen negotiations as Musk has yet to respond to his offer to delete the account in exchange for an internship.

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?”

But Sweeney had offered some technical advice to musk, telling him about a blocking programme he could use to counter flight trackers.

He noted: “It looks like he took that advice.”

However, he admitted that hasn’t been a problem for his account.

Asked if he is still able to track the jet, he said: “I am. It’s just a bit more complicated.”

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