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Jack Sweeney is a young man from 19 years, known on social networks for tracking the private jets of several billionaires on the planet through bots. His bot accounts are named according to the owner of the jet in question. @ElonJet is one of them, and if you follow her you will also follow in the footsteps of the private plane of the so-called “Tesla man or SpaceX man”.
The issue is that Musk has been affected by the publication of what he considers “private information” and has written directly to Sweeney: “Can you take this down?”, “It’s a security risk.”.
The young Floridian was surprised to read that Elon Musk himself sent him a direct message via Twitter. And his surprise was even greater when Musk offered him $5,000 dollars to buy his account, an offer to which Sweeney said ‘no’. himself to the local network Fox35.
“I’ve put in a lot of work and time, and it’s something I enjoy doing and 5K doesn’t seem like much for how much I get out of it and enjoy doing it.”
Jack Sweeney
Jack Sweeney assures through his Twitter account @JxckSweeney that the data he publishes is not private, since all planes are required to make this information public , he simply takes care of looking for it.
But the offer did not end there, Sweeney made a counter offer to Musk and requested $06,000 dollars to use for your studies or to buy a Tesla car. That was the end of the chat because Musk did not respond any more.
Subsequently, the student has received other attractive offers, the CEO of a car rental company called Drive Autonomy wrote to him: “If it’s a Tesla Model 3 you want, I’ve got one for you. You just have to close the ElonJet account and in exchange I’ll give you a subscription to a Model 3. Sweeney, also rejected that offer.
The young man assures that he does not need permission to publish the information he publishes and also announced that he has created new bot accounts, to show the whereabouts of other jets whose owners are recognized tycoons.
Sweeney makes the invitation in his account that if you have information about jets that belong to politicians, give him the initials of the same and he will be in charge of publishing the information.
Jackstech.net/social is a website that brings together all of this young man’s social networks, including his LinkedIn account in which he introduces himself as a student at UCF, in Orlando, Florida, from which he aspires to graduate in 2025 .
Jack Sweeney, also has a link in your p page to receive donations and the basic reason why the guy from 19 years asking for money explains it like this:
“Please consider donating. I spend a fair amount of time running, maintaining, and developing new features for these Twitter accounts. They cost money to run and maintain.”J.Sweeney.
The boy does not seem to have the intention to stop, although he himself assured that Elon Musk is using a blocking program that he was advised. Although Sweeney says he will do it again, it will just be a little more complicated.
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