A 20-year-old college student tracking Elon Musk’s private jet said he would stop the act if the Tesla boss agreed to take him on one of his tours. Jack Sweeney previously asked the tech billionaire to pay him $50,000 to stop tracking his flights.
“If he lets me fly with him on his jet, record it and talk about it – and maybe not even pay me $50,000 [previously asked for] – I’ll take this down,” Sweeney tweeted according to the New York Post. “It’s still up for discussion.”
Recently, Musk took a nine-minute flight from San Jose to San Francisco in his private jet, for which he was trolled a lot. Soon after, Sweeney’s offer came.
The trip was tracked and reported by @ElonJet, a Twitter account run by Sweeney.
Not only Musk, Sweeney, a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, has been known to track the flights of many celebrities including Tom Cruise, Bill Gates and some members of the Kardashian clan. Recently, he was seen keeping an eye on the flights of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. They have 30 bot accounts that track their flights.
In February of this year, Sweeney turned down Musk’s offer of $5,000 to stop tracking his plane and instead asked for $50,000 or an internship. Elon Musk first reached out to Sweeney in November 2021 asking him to stop tracking flight movements over privacy concerns.
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