Jack Sweeney also follows names like Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump

Thanks to the algorithm he developed, it turned out that 19-year-old college student Jack Sweeney, who followed the private jet of the world's richest person, Elon Musk, and published it on his social media account, followed 127 private jets, including the planes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump. Sweeney, who was followed by many people because of the code he wrote, said that he saw this as a business opportunity after Elon Musk offered $5,000 to close the account. Saying that he thinks, "This coding project, which is mostly built for fun, could be extremely profitable," Sweeney added that he wrote new code to track other important private jets, many of them in the summer of 2021. Following the flight data of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump's private jets, Sweeney stated that this information can be observed on 16 different Twitter accounts. He stated that the account that followed Elon Musk's jet was in the first place, with more than 300,000 followers. Sweeney, who responded to Elon Musk's five-thousand-dollar offer with a fifty-thousand-dollar request. He said he would offer the same deal to other billionaires looking to buy Twitter accounts. Jack Sweeney said he earned a total of $500 thanks to donations and advertisements on his website.

He had received a job offer

Stratos Jet Charters, one of the world's leading private airlines, offered a job to 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, a freshman from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Stratos President and CEO Joel Thomas told the New York Post that they had offered Sweeney to work on the development team after seeing the creativity that started his Twitter account, 'Elon Musk's Jet'.