Elon Musk offers student $5,000 to delete Twitter bot tracking his private jet but the 19-year-old engineering student refuses and asks for internship instead

A student named Jack Sweeny has risen to prominence after he reportedly snubbed a whopping $5,000 from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk who asked him to delete a Twitter bot tracking his private jet.

Apparently, the 19-year-old Aerospace engineering student at the University of Central Florida has created a Twitter bot that helps track the location and movement of private jets used by billionaires. The sophisticated bot matches data from several public sources to identify planes.

Multiple reports reveal Musk actually DM Sweeney and offered him the aforementioned amount to delete the bot account over security concerns but the young man flatly turned down his request, instead requesting an internship instead at either Tesla or SpaceX.

Sweeney, who is studying information technology, created 15 Twitter bots tracking the private planes of tech billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos – but the account tracking Musk’s jet is by far the most popular, with 88,000 followers.

Although the information Sweeney uses is all public, his program requires sophisticated knowledge to match transponder frequencies with separately available anonymous flight plans, according to Protocol, which first reported the saga.

See the conversation he established with him asking him to delete the bot and give him a level of privacy he deserves.

‘I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase,’ a part of the message the billionaire sent to the teenager reads;

See the chat below:

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