Elon Musk had previously offered Jack Sweeney $5,000 and a Tesla to stop tracking his private jet.Andrew Kelly\/Reuters<\/p>\n
Jack Sweeney runs Twitter accounts that tracks celebrities' private jets including Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
The world's richest man previously offered Sweeney $5,000 to stop tracking his jet.<\/p>\n
Sweeney says he may close the account if Musk takes him on a flight and gives him an interview.<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old who attracted Elon Musk's ire for running a Twitter account that tracks his private jet has said he could shut it down if the Tesla chief meets his conditions.<\/p>\n
Jack Sweeney previously declined Musk's offer of $5,000 and a free Tesla, saying he gets too much satisfaction from tracking the billionaire's jet to settle for anything less than $50,000.<\/p>\n
He told the Daily Star he would consider taking the account down if Musk took him on a flight and gave him an interview mid-air.<\/p>\n
\"If he let me fly with him on his jet, record it and talk about it - and maybe not even pay me the $50,000 [previously asked for] I would take it down. That is still up for discussion,\" Sweeney told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
Sweeney didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.<\/p>\n
The account,@ElonJet, uses a bot to tracks the billionaire's jet through public ADS-B data. Sweeney previously argued that taking down his account \"won't fix the issue, my code is open-sourced [and] others said they would recreate it anyway.\"<\/p>\n
Musk is not the only person whose jets he has tracked. Tom Cruise, the Kardashians, several Russian oligarchs and even Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have all been in his sights. Mark Cuban is thought to be the only celebrity who has struck a deal with Sweeney to stop tracking his flights.<\/p>\n
Sweeney told the Daily Star it was becoming harder to track Musk's jet: \"His plane was in San Francisco for less than a day, but it was hard to figure out because this was one of the flights where he had PIA [Privacy ICAO Address, which masks the owner's identity].\"<\/p>\n
He added: \"It's like having a license plate on your car that is registered to another name. It takes extra work to know where the jet is going.\"<\/p>\n
Insider has contacted Musk for comment.<\/p>\n
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