A teenager who created a Twitter bot, which provides real -time updates on Alone Musk's personal jet movements says that if that billionaire entrepreneur pays him $ 50,000, he will remove the account.
19 -year -old Jack Sweeny made headlines last week Etiquette The article revealed that Musk approached the new college player through Twitter DMS later last year, asked to take him down. @Elonjet Due to safety concerns.
The account, which was set by Florida in June 2020 and currently 185,000 followers, use publicly available data and post a tweet on the ground and post a tweet on the ground each time. Below is one of the recent tweets of the bot.
https://twitter.com/elonjet/status/148792821706352304
After a small conversation through DMS, Musk offered Sweeni to pay $ 5,000, if he agreed to lift the account.
“Any chance that up to $ 50k?” Sweeny replied, saying that it would “be great support in college and possibly allow me to get a car, perhaps a model 3.”
Musk said that he would think about it, but in the message seen later Internal formula The owner of both SpaceX and Tesla said that it “did not have the right to pay to close it.”
During his conversation, Sweeni explained even various steps that he could do to make his jet difficult to track others, although the student still has ways to work the aircraft movements.
Self-known musk fans said that even without payment, 14 other similar accounts tracking Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, as well as the experience of creating Musk Jet Twitter bot, had been a positive extent, which helped them to learn a part-time job as an app development. The opportunity to interact with Kasturi via Twitter is probably icing on the cake, he said.
Musk said A tweet Last year, people were talking about posting information about their jet movements, “was becoming a security issue.”
According to the protocol, the most recent contact between Sweeni and Musk took place in mid -January when the student said he would consider internship instead of payment. Till January 22, Musk had not opened the message, although it was likely because he was on holiday in Hawaii – according to the bot.
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