The college student who tracked Elon Musk’s private jet is back on Twitter under a new name. The billionaire banned his first account, @ElonJet, for breaking Twitter rules.
Jack Sweeney, who is 20 years old, said that he started following Elon Musk’s private jet in 2020 because he was a fan. After he had stopped using Twitter for more than two years, Elon Musk threatened to sue him.
A source has learned that Sweeney will continue to track Musk’s private jet, but with a 24-hour delay. He will do this under the new username @ElonJetNextDay. The move comes after the billionaire changed the rules of Twitter, where he is now the CEO after buying it on October 27.
Landed in Oakland, California, US. Apx. flt. time 3 Hours : 20 Mins. (24 hours ago) pic.twitter.com/1KpLKjUrGV
— ElonJet but Delayed (@ElonJetNextDay) December 22, 2022
Sweeney said in an interview on Thursday that he will “post by hand” for the time being because “the framework for automating isn’t there yet.” He also said that it is hard to say when the account will be fully automated.
He also said that “@ElonJet is still available elsewhere,” such as on the site Truth Social run by former President Donald Trump. Sweeney said that he will also add other accounts, such as @CelebJets, to sites like Instagram and Facebook.
Sweeney had more than 30 accounts to keep an eye on politicians and billionaires like Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon.
But Musk, who earlier this year offered to pay Sweeney to get rid of the old account, didn’t like it when public information about his and other public figures’ whereabouts was shared online. For example, he didn’t like it when he said a “crazy stalker” followed a car with his two-year-old son in it.
Around the same time, Twitter posted what it said was a new rule that made it hard to post someone’s live location. It said that the update would “make it harder to share someone else’s live location in most cases” by removing tweets and suspending accounts that were used to do so.
According to its new rules, it is not against the law to “share publicly available location information after a reasonable amount of time has passed and the person is no longer at risk of physical harm.”
Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation,
Musk tweeted on December 15.
This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.
He added:
Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.
