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A teenager holds the richest people in the world… in his hand – What he asks of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

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A teenager holds the richest people in the world… in his hand - What he asks of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

A teenager from Florida is asking for more than $ 50,000 from Elon Musk to stop posting the location of his private jet on Twitter. At the same time, he claims that he creates dozens of other accounts that will follow the aerial movements of other rich and famous people.

https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1488672980007886850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [/ embed]

Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old student and aviation enthusiast, claimed to have created 16 automated Twitter accounts (known as bots). What made him famous was @ElonJet, but now he also has @GatesJets, which follows the jets of Bill Gates, as well as bots for the jets of Amazon Jeff Bezos, billionaire Mark Cuban and rapper Drake.

https://twitter.com/GatesJets/status/1488792416924622852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [/ embed]

A lucrative hobby

In an interview with the Guardian, Sweeney stated that he has set up a website called Ground Control to make money from the service he offers, providing high-level monitoring services to avid fans, but also as an alternative in case Twitter deleted his accounts for privacy reasons.

“Whether they are extremely prominent personalities or just very interesting people,” Sweeney said when asked who exactly he was following. “Now I have started to add people who have been asked by my followers.”

In his opinion, the most interesting of all is Drake.

“It has the largest plane of all, it is a huge Boeing.”

The rapper's plane, the Air Drake, costs $ 185 million and is an 18-meter Boeing 767-200ER that can carry 216 passengers.

Negotiations with Musk

Sweeney, who created the @ElonJet account in June 2020, said he hoped Musk would return to negotiations to buy and close the account. The co-founder and CEO of Tesla did not comply with the teenager's request to offer him $ 50,000.

Musk, the richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at $ 220 billion, has urged Sweeney to close his account.

“Can you download this? “It's a danger to my safety,” he wrote in a message to the teenager. “I'm not crazy about the idea of being shot by anyone crazy.”

Sweeney said receiving a message from Musk himself, who he says is his idol, was a surreal experience. I was about to fall asleep to tell you the truth and suddenly I thought “Oh my God, Elon just texted me to download my account”. “It was crazy.”

“And then he offered me $ 5,000 to make it difficult for people who would like to find him and download my account. I also made my counter-proposal to him “.

Sweeney tried to negotiate with Musk, answering: “Is there a case to raise it to $ 50 thousand? “It would be very useful to pay for college and maybe I could buy a car – even a [Tesla] Model 3.”

Musk then replied that he did not feel comfortable giving him any money. Sweeney then told him that if he did not want to pay, he was willing to delete the account on the condition that he do an internship at Tesla.

“That was the last thing I told him,” he recalls. “And then he blocked me.”

With information from Guardian / IN.GR

Source: politis.com.cy

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