Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a tweet complaining that his personal security is being put at risk by people who announce his travel plans online.

The tweet was in response to a January 18 announcement from Sawyer Merritt that he wouldn't be posting any reported travel plans for Elon Musk anymore. The Tesla pundit initially tweeted about Musk's plans to visit the Berlin plant but later deleted the message.

While Musk did not nominate anyone, his biggest beef appears to be with a Twitter bot called @ElonJet, which tracks every flight of the billionaire's 2015 Gulfstream G650ER business jet (callsign N628TS) using publicly available data.

As it turns out, Elon Musk allegedly approached the creator of the said Twitter account, a 19-year-old Jack Sweeney from Orlando, Florida, with an offer to cease these activities in exchange for $5,000. 

"Can you take this down? It is a security risk."

That was the first private Twitter message Sweeney claims Musk sent him in late November 2021, but another one stands out because it highlights the billionaire's worries.

"I don't love the idea of being shot by a nutcase."