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A Twitter feud has damaged out between the world’s richest man and a 19-year-old Florida teen.
Jack Sweeney created a Twitter bot, @ElonJet, which tracks Elon Musk’s personal jet and tweets out when and the place the airplane takes off or lands and the length of every journey, per CNN.
- “Can you are taking this down? It's a safety danger,” Musk mentioned to Jack Sweeney over Twitter DMs.
- Sweeney replied seven hours later: “Sure I can however it’ll price you a Mannequin 3 solely joking until?”
Took off from Hawthorne, California, US. pic.twitter.com/nH7RWF7S3G
— Elon Musk's Jet (@ElonJet) January 30, 2022
- The school freshman has developed 15 different such bots that observe the travels of high-profile tech giants like Invoice Gates and Jeff Bezos. However Musk’s was hottest, with almost 83,000 followers, making it a security concern, per Protocol.
- Within the Twitter change, Musk requested how a lot Sweeney made off the Twitter accounts, to which Sweeney mentioned not more than $20. Elon took this as a chance to supply $5,000 to delete the account.
- “Any likelihood to up that to $50k? It could be nice assist in faculty and may enable me to get a automobile perhaps even a Mannequin 3.”
Musk is at the moment fascinated by it and hasn’t paid Sweeney a dime, saying it “doesn’t really feel proper to pay to close this down.”
So, Sweeney went public with the data and supplied Insider with screenshots of the personal change.
However he did provide Musk some recommendation on getting a blocking program to counter flight monitoring, although Sweeney can nonetheless observe him, per CNN. “It’s only a bit extra difficult,” he mentioned.