Jack Sweeney, the 19 years old who get famous after posting Elon Musk’s private jet’s whereabouts on Twitter, has a new Twitter account in which he posts about Russian tycoons’ jets.
Sweeney’s previous account, @Elonjet often tracks Musk’s jet, which he had publicly refused to take-down even after a direct request from Elon Musk himself.
Earlier in January, Musk offered Sweeney $ 5,000 to take down the account however the teen refused to settle for whatever aside from a Tesla.
Isn’t that blackmail?
In his defense, Sweeney is not doing something unlawful as he’s simply posting information which might be already in the public domain. He clarifies his stance even in a pinned tweet on his Twitter page.
Now, that 19-year-old teen is using the similar technique to track jets of Russian tycoons.
The Twitter account @RUOligarchJets has more than 93,000 followers and has tweeted about planes & helicopters of billionaires like Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov and Alexander Abramov to name some, while other separate account called @PutinJet is tracking jets of Vladimir Putin and many other VIPs in Russia.
However, Sweeney does no longer expect the latter account to work very precise since the mandatory Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) coverage, in which Sweeney gets his data from is not excellent in Russia, Sweeney tweeted.
Russians on the radar
Speaking to Bloomberg, Sweeney said that he decided to begin these accounts due to the fact that he received a couple of requests from the public to do so and he has depended on a list of planes from a blog called Radar Spots for this account.
According to Sweeney, Russian tycoons move across in large jets which include Boeing 737 and Airbus 319 that commercial airlines generally prefer.
Since these tycoons additionally own multiple aircraft, it’s far instead hard to accurately hint their location at a given time using information from Sweeney’s account.
An aircraft landing in London doesn’t imply that the owner was even onboard. So, it is not essentially the invasion of privacy the way Musk sees it.
Nevertheless, Russian tycoons should really be cursing Musk for not giving the boy a car and nipping this in the bud.
The account and its posts will really keep them in the news at a time when they desire for the least quantity of spotlight on them.
