U.S. teen spurns Elon Musk's offer of US$5K to delete Twitter account

Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old from Florida, rejected a US$5,000 offer from Elon Musk to delete his Twitter account that tracks the billionaire's private jet.

ElonJet has over 150,000 followers, and uses a bot that Sweeney developed to monitor Musk's flights. The feed then tweets out when and where the plane takes off or lands and the duration of each trip.

The college freshman has developed about a dozen other flight bot accounts that track the travels of high-profile tech titans, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

The initial direct message from Musk came November 30, Protocol first reported.

"Can you take this down?," Musk asked Sweeney. "It's a security risk."