Elon Musk offers teen $5K to stop tracking his private jet location

San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered an enterprising teenager $5,000 to remove a Twitter bot tracking the movements of his private plane.

The billionaire reached out to the 19-year-old, Jack Sweeney, last November to express concern about a Twitter account he runs called @ElonJet, which provides regular updates on flights of well-known figures by using publicly available data.

Musk offered Jack $5,000 (Rs 3.75 lakh) to stop tweeting about his jets. However, Jack turned down Musk's offer and instead demanded $50,000 (Rs 37.55 lakh), saying that the amount would cover his college fees and also help him buy a Tesla car, according to Protocol.

Musk said he would think about it, but so far has not paid up.

The negotiation between Musk and Sweeney reportedly happened over several direct messages on Twitter.