Elon Musk has gotten real salty with a 19 year old
on Twitter who has been tracking the movements of his private jet.
Musk is not pleased with that, attempted to stop it from happening, but
he got owned by the 19 year old.
This story is super fascinating, especially when it has to do with
an impressive 19 year old who has the ability to track a, a private jet.
Now this all started when Musk asked Jack Sweeney,
that's the 19 year old, how much he made off the Twitter accounts,
which Sweeney said was no more than $20 a month.
Then Elon musk made his own offer, $5000 to delete the account and
help the billionaire keep crazy people from tracking his location.
Sweeney told musk to add another 0,
any chance to up that to $50,000 jesus, wow!
$50,000, I like the fact that this guy is playing hardball.
Now, let me be clear, he's using publicly available
information to track the movement of Elon Musk's jet.
And he's actually a big Elon Musk fan, he's not a hater, right?
And he's like, maybe we can figure out what kind of business deals he's getting
involved in through these, through the movement of his private jet, right?
And so Musk said that he would think about Sweeney's counter offer,
Then later said, quote, it doesn't feel right to pay to shut this down.
And in an interview apparently Sweeney said, look, I can't shut this down for
$5000 because I feel a sense of purpose in doing it, I enjoy it too much.
I've done a lot of work on this and 5k Is not enough,
Sweeney said in an interview with Insider.
He added that $5,000 wasn't enough to replace quote the fun I have in
this working on it.
And Elon Musk apparently wouldn't play ball later.
It was updated that Musk blocked him, blocked Sweeney on Twitter like a.
>> Yeah, I've got a slightly surprising.
>> No. >> Yeah.
So look, I'm worried about people's physical safety.
So I I don't love tracking folks and seeing where they are.
And I like that the kid made a counter offer, but now it's all of it is too late
because if even if most were to accept an offer now and give them the 50,000 or
the kid would take the 5000 be relevant.
Their public records, then the next guy would pop up tracking him until Musk had
to pay that guy and the next guy.
So it's over they're gonna track him for the rest of his life.
>> Yeah, I think Musk ended up making the right decision because then you're gonna
have to play whack a mole with all the various people who are gonna do the same
thing, you're right about that.
>> But with that said, I'm gonna counter your bad opinion with some evidence.
[LAUGH]. >> Okay.
>> Because it's not like the account is
like Elon Musk is located at this specific location, this address,
this is where you can find him. No.
Here's an example of what the tweets
look like took off from Hawthorne California US.
Like it just shows you the general area
and I don't know if you know this but there are many people living in Hawthorne,
California. It's not like easy to track down where
Elon Musk is gonna be specifically. Here's another example landed in Austin,
Texas. Big city you're not gonna be able to find
him specifically. And so
I'm really impressed with this 19 year old though because look,
he's doing this based on publicly available information but
there's actual work involved. And the fact that he was able to do this
tracking is pretty pretty impressive. So he uses data from the ADSB
transponders present on most aircraft which slows or
shows I should say a plane's location in the air in real
time as charted by the ADSB exchange. And
then there's more to it than that. And
so he's created like these bots that track everything and
then he puts it on his twitter account. >> Yeah.
I wonder who else is tracking Elon Musk
and others because if it's that easy to track them publicly.
Foreign governments could track them,
maybe business interests could track them for whatever reason maybe he's gonna make
a deal and then you find out where the if he flies into Cincinnati.
He might be doing a deal with Procter and
Gamble because they're in Cincinnati. Right.
So there's people that are tracking
Nancy Pelosi's investments, there's nothing wrong with that.
That has nothing to do with physical
location. The theory is she's
corrupt. [LAUGH].
So she's making a deal or
buying something that's likely to go up. There is some good logic to that
what some people track with the big banks are investing in.
There's a lot of logic in that,
right. >> Absolutely.
>> Here anything that gets
close to physical location. I'm gonna be a downer on and
say I don't love it. But does the kid have initiative?
Yeah, sure.
>> In fact Jack Sweeney has already
received job offers as a result of his enterprising moves on social media.
Got a job offer from stratus which is
a jet charter, a private charter flight company that's based in Orlando,
Florida.
So. >> Interesting.
Okay well in that sense for
the initiative Atta boy I would have picked a different project but
like I said I'm being a downer. >> Am super proud if that was my 19 year
old. >> Yeah I'd be super impressed and
then I said wait make it 25,000, let's make it a deal and move on.