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Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake too’

Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake too’


Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake too’
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The Florida teenager demanding Elon Musk hand over $50,000 to stop him tweeting the location of the billionaire's private jet has said he is creating dozens more accounts tracking the movements of other rich and famous people.

Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old college student and aviation enthusiast, said he had created 16 automated Twitter accounts, or bots, similar to @ElonJet to follow jets owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (@GatesJet), Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the rapper Drake.

In an interview with the Guardian, Sweeney said he had also created a website, Ground Control, to "monetise" the service by offering bespoke tracking services to celebrities' superfans and to host web versions of the Twitter bots if the microblogging site closes his accounts because of privacy concerns raised by the subjects.

"They're either really prominent people or just like really interesting," Sweeney said of the people he tracks. "Lately I have been adding people that [his followers] have requested."

Recent accounts he has set up after requests include Cuban and Drake, who he said was the most interesting.

"He has the biggest plane out of all of them, it is a giant Boeing."

The rapper's plane, Air Drake, is a $185m 59ft-long Boeing 767-200ER that can carry 216 passengers.

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