19-year-old Jack Sweeney runs a Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet. Musk offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove it and give advice on how to make his jet less trackable. Sweeney told Insider he thought $5,000 was too low for the satisfaction he gets from the work. Loading Something is loading. A 19-year-old who was offered $5,000 by Elon Musk to shut down a Twitter account tracking the billionaire’s jet told Insider he refused the offer because it wasn’t enough to replace the satisfaction he gets from running the account.Protocol was the first to report that Jack Sweeney had been approached by Musk via private messages on Twitter. The DMs, a screenshot of which Sweeney shared with Insider, showed Musk asked him to take down the Elon Musk’s Jet Twitter account, saying it was a “security risk.”Musk tweeted earlier this month, saying that social-media accounts discussing his whereabouts were “becoming a security issue.”In the Twitter conversation viewed by Insider, Sweeney discussed with Musk how his bots are able to track the jet, and gave technical advice on how the billionaire could potentially make his jet less trackable. “How about $5k for this account and generally helping make it harder…
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Elon Musk Jet-Tracking Teen Turned Down $5K Because He Enjoys the Work – Business Insider
