A Florida teenager has gone viral after creating a Twitter account that tracks the flight paths of the private jets of Drake, Taylor Swift and Elon Musk.
The account, started by 19-year-old student Jack Sweeney, gained such popularity that he was contacted by Elon Musk who asked him to delete it.
“Can you take that down? It’s a security risk,” Musk wrote in a direct message to Sweeney. “I don’t like the idea of being shot by a crackpot.”
Landed near Brownsville, Texas, USA. Approx. flt. time 45 mins. pic.twitter.com/1j6y40p0XJ
— Jet by Elon Musk (@ElonJet) February 2, 2022
Musk even offered Sweeney a monetary incentive to delete the Twitter account, but Sweeney tried to make a better deal.
“I was about to fall asleep actually, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, Elon just messaged me to delete my account,'” he said. “It was crazy,” the teenager told the Guardian.
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“And then he offers me $5,000 to make it harder for people to follow him and take the account down, and I make my counter offer. Any chance of bumping that up to $50,000? It would be a great support at university and it might allow me to have a car, maybe even a [Tesla] Model 3.”
Although he was worth an estimated US$220 billion (about A$308 billion), Musk turned down the offer. Sweeney then told the billionaire that he would gladly delete the account in exchange for an internship at Tesla.
“That’s the last thing I said [to Musk]”, Sweeney said. “And then he blocked me.”
Sweeney tracks the flight paths of a number of billionaires and musicians’ private jets. He even set up an account specifically for Drakes’ $185 million private plane, “Air Drake,” which is 59 feet long and seats 216 passengers.
“He’s got the biggest plane of them all, it’s a giant Boeing,” Sweeney told the publication.
One of Sweeneys @CelebJets accounts tracks the movements of a number of A-lister private planes, including Oprah Winfrey, Kylie Jenner, Taylor Swift and Tom Cruise.
Earlier today, the teenager reported that Taylor Swift’s private jet took off near Austin, Texas and landed in Morristown nearly three hours later.
Taylor Swift’s F900 landed in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. Approx. flt. time 2 Hours: 56 Min. pic.twitter.com/FhWHCBPFSS
— Celebrity Jets (@CelebJets) February 2, 2022
