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Teen turns down $5,000 from Elon Musk to shut down Twitter which tracks his private jet

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Jack Sweeney is a 19-year-old who runs a Twitter account dedicated to tracking the whereabouts of billionaire Elon Musk's private jet, and Musk wants him to stop.

In fact, Musk offered Sweeney a payment of $5,000 to cease all operations on the account, which Sweeney declined!


Sweeney revealed the DMs Musk sent him to Business Insider, where in which the billionaire called the Twitter account a "security risk," and revealed that he turned down the $5,000 because "it wasn't enough to replace the satisfaction he gets from running the account."

However, Sweeney offer Musk with some advice on how his bots are able to track his jet, and even gave him some technical advice on how Musk could potentially make his jet less trackable.

Sweeney said he would take the Twitter account however for $50,000, which he said would go towards his college funding and even towards buying a Tesla Model 3.

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