Jack Sweeney turned down $5,000 to stop tracking Elon Musk’s airplane flights. Here’s why the teen stopped tracking Mark Cuban’s private jets for free.
, which post the location, altitude and speed transmitted by every federally regulated aircraft.
And, Sweeney adds, celebrities usually aren't particularly private about owning jets in the first place."People have the private planes, they post all of these pictures on them," he says."It's not a secret." Sweeney says only one other person, a lawyer for venture capitalist Grant Cardone, has asked him to halt flight tracking. Like Cuban, the request came in a direct message on Twitter, according to screenshots reviewed by CNBC Make It. And like @MCubansJets, the @CardoneJet account doesn't have many followers: currently fewer than 2,000.
Yet @CardoneJet remains active on Twitter. Sweeney says he never actually responded to the lawyer's request, which didn't offer anything in return for deactivating the account. Sweeney says he hopes to eventually monetize his Twitter accounts, potentially by turning his personal website into an all-in-one celebrity flight tracker or finding a way to offer carbon offsets for some of the flights he tracks. But for now, he adds, he only plans to keep growing the number of flights the code can access.Get smarter about your money and career with our weekly newsletter
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