19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Musk tried to pay him to stop

> The account's popularity appears to have scared Musk. “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase,” he told Sweeney in their DM conversation.

Jeez, what a stupid comment. Any motivated attacker can still follow his flights and do this. He’s a public figure with more money than god. Hire a security team or stop jetsetting!

As soon as the owner of the bot made Elons DM public, he guaranteed he’ll never get paid a penny.

Now that it is publicly known that there is value to it then there is a financial incentive for someone else to make a bot too. This coupled with the fact that the data it’s based upon is public means anyone can make one.

If a deal had been struck privately and the bot had quietly went offline then there’s a chance nobody would have noticed or cared enough to make a replacement.