The Florida teenager demanding Elon Musk hand over $50,000 to cease him tweeting the placement of the billionaire’s personal jet has stated he's creating dozens extra accounts monitoring the actions of different wealthy and well-known folks.
Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old faculty scholar and aviation fanatic, stated he had created 16 automated Twitter accounts, or bots, much like @ElonJet to observe jets owned by Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates (@GatesJet), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the rapper Drake.
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In an interview with the Guardian, Sweeney stated he had additionally created an internet site, Floor Management, to “monetise” the service by providing bespoke monitoring companies to celebrities’ superfans and to host internet variations of the Twitter bots if the microblogging web site closes his accounts due to privateness considerations raised by the themes.
“They’re both actually outstanding folks or identical to actually attention-grabbing,” Sweeney stated of the folks he tracks. “Currently I've been including people who [his followers] have requested.”
Current accounts he has arrange after requests embody Cuban and Drake, who he stated was probably the most attention-grabbing.
“He has the largest airplane out of all of them, it's a large Boeing.”
The rapper’s airplane, Air Drake, is a $185m 59ft-long Boeing 767-200ER that may carry 216 passengers.
Sweeney, who created @ElonJet in June 2020, stated he hoped Musk would reopen negotiations to purchase and shut down the account. The co-founder and chief government of Tesla has refused the teenager’s demand for $50,000.
Musk, the world’s richest individual with an estimated $220bn fortune, has urged Sweeney to delete the account.
“Can you're taking this down? It's a safety threat,” Musk, wrote in a direct message to the teenager. “I don’t love the concept of being shot by a nutcase.”
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Sweeney stated receiving the direct message from Musk, whom he described as his idol, was a surreal expertise. “I used to be nearly to fall asleep truly, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh Elon simply messaged me to take down my account’,” he stated. “It was insane.”
“After which he gives me $5,000 to make it tougher for folks to trace him and to take down the account, and I make my counter-offer.”
Sweeney tried to barter with Musk, replying: “Any likelihood to up that to $50K? It will be nice assist in faculty and may enable me to get a automobile, possibly even a [Tesla] Mannequin 3.”
Musk later stated he didn't really feel snug paying something. Sweeney replied that if Musk didn't wish to pay, he would delete the account in return for an internship at Tesla.
“That was the very last thing I stated [to Musk],” Sweeney stated. “After which he blocked me.”
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