Twitter accounts any time soon.Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old computer science major at the University of Central Florida, made a name for himself earlier this year by creating a Twitter feed that kept tabs on the location of Elon Musk's private jet.Unhappy with the transparency, Musk offered Jack $5,000 (£3700) to take down the tracker, saying: “Can you take this down?
It is a security risk. I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.”However, Jack turned it down and demanded a higher sum of $50k (£37,000), saying: “Any chance to up that to $50k?
It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3.” Instead he got blocked by Musk before moving onto other targets.In an exclusive interview with the Daily Star, Jack says the reason he turned down Musk's offer is that it wasn't enough from the world's richest man. "I asked for more money and after a while he said it didn't feel right to pay to take it down.
Once everything hit the news, he blocked me."To take down Musk's tracker, Jack says why he wanted more: "I'm not going to take down something I really like for nothing, you know?"Although he started off by only tracking Musk, Jack now runs a whole range of automated air trackers, including US Air Force VIPs, celebrities like Floyd Mayweather and Tiger Woods, and tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.Chief among them, however, is probably public enemy No.1 for many people around the world today: Vladimir Putin.This month, Jack created a new Twitter account called PutinJet to keep an eye on private jets owned by the Russian president in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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