BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk reportedly tried to pay off a teen who was tracking his jet-setting adventures – until the entrepreneur GHOSTED him.
The Tesla boss was not impressed when he found out a 19-year-old had developed a Twitter bot to keep track of his private jet’s movements.
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According to Protocol, Musk sent a DM asking for it to be taken down.
The account is one of several run by Jack Sweeney, keeping tabs on high-flyers including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
It uses publicly available data of all flights in the air.
@ElonJet is the most popular of the bunch, with almost 90,000 followers.
Musk was scared some “nutcase” might shoot out of the skies.
“Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” he apparently pleaded.
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The teen responded: “Yes I can but it’ll cost you a Model 3 only joking unless?”
After a few messages back and forth, Musk asked how much Sweeney made running the account.
When he revealed it earned him no more than $20 a month, the world’s richest man made a measly offer of $5,000 to delete the account.
The teen pushed for more, demanding an extra zero on the end.
“Any chance to up that to $50k?” he said.
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“It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3.”
Musk hit back that he’d think about it but so far Sweeney hasn’t heard anymore.
That conversation happened way back in the autumn months.
But the self-confessed Musk “fan” isn’t offended.
He actually decided to have another go recently, telling Musk he’d rather have an internship than money.
But Musk hasn’t opened the message yet.
“I think he’s on vacay in Hawaii if you check ElonJet,” he said.
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