The teen tracking Elon Musk's jet also does Jeff Bezos' and 125 others: I can make 'some kind of business out of this.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., waves while departing court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.When Elon Musk offered Jack Sweeney $5,000 to shut down a Twitter account tracking his flight patterns, a lightbulb lit up in Sweeney's head: This coding project, set up mostly for kicks, could become extremely profitable.
Sweeney now tracks flight data from 127 different jets, including aircrafts owned by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and former president Donald Trump. That data appears on 16 different Twitter accounts, with @ElonJet still the most popular at more than 300,000 followers.. But instead of accepting Musk's $5,000 offer, he asked for more: $50,000.
Now, Sweeney says, he understands the security concerns: Publishing the flight paths in real time reveals where public figures are traveling, and according to screenshots, Musk told Sweeney that he "didn't love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Sweeney says most of his followers are Musk or aviation fans, businessmen and women, and "the people who say, 'Yeah, let's go after billionaires.'" But he insists he didn't create the Twitter accounts to hold the rich accountable.
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