ElonJet

Twitter is one of the internet’s favorite places for internet beef and Elon Musk is no stranger to it. A particular beef involving a college student tracking his private jet was the catalyst for the billionaire purchasing shares of Twitter, commencing his takeover of the social media platform, according to a new book about the ordeal. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet“Musk had also unsuccessfully petitioned Agrawal to remove a Twitter account that was tracking his private plane,” says an excerpt from Battle for the…

Celebrities don’t like Jack Sweeney. For the past few years, the University of Central Florida junior has run several social media accounts that track planes and helicopters owned by billionaires, oligarchs, and other members of the ruling class using publicly available flight records from the Federal Aviation Administration. It bothered Elon Musk so much that he specifically changed X/Twitter’s policies to ban Sweeney’s account. Now, Taylor Swift is taking the baton from Musk. The pop star is threatening to sue Sweeney…

It looks like Elon Musk isn’t the only billionaire who doesn’t like having their private jet tracked. Pop star Taylor Swift has threatened legal action against a Florida student who set up multiple social media accounts that release real-time information as to the whereabouts of her personal aircraft, This is eerily reminiscent of the whole ElonJet scandal of late 2022, in which that was tracking Musk’s jet. As a matter of fact, the student facing legal action by Swift’s team is the same guy who ran that account. Jack…

Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetX, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts…

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year."ElonJet has arrived to Threads!" read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain.In December Twitter, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the…

 Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year."ElonJet has arrived to Threads!" read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account,…

Jack Sweeney, the college student behind the Twitter account @ElonJet, has moved his platform to Threads after he was banned last year. Elon Musk banned Sweeney’s account from tracking his private flights and threatened to take legal action against him, claiming that tracking his flights put his son at risk.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIn his first post on his Threads account, @elonmusksjet, Sweeney wrote: “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” In a separate post, Sweeney appeared to reference his ban on Twitter, and…

Meta's has , with more than 70 million registered accounts being registered within around 40 hours of the app . One of those users is a particular of Elon Musk as they're posting what the Twitter owner as "basically assassination coordinates" for him. In reality, the person behind Elonjet, Jack Sweeney, is using publicly available flight data to share the whereabouts of Musk's private jet in near-real-time. Sweeney used to post that information on Twitter, which bothered Musk long before he bought the company. Musk…

In recent years, the Saudi government has tried to push international aviation regulators to forbid or prevent the public dissemination of ADS-B data, though that proposal hasn’t gone far. Musk, on the other hand, has threatened legal action against those sharing the location of his private jet.Stanford says their position has always been to oppose any censorship, regardless of the reason. “How do you make that decision, that one person is good and one person is bad?” he says.Being independent and decentralized has come…

Last week, Twitter banned Jack Sweeney's @ElonJet account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet, then unveiled a new policy against sharing live locations shortly afterward. Now, Sweeney is back with a new account called @ElonJetNexDay that still tracks Musk's aircraft, but adds a 24-hour delay to the location, TechCrunch has reported. It appears to be Sweeney's effort conform to Twitter's new rules, which state that it's permissible to share "publicly available information after a reasonable time has elapsed, so that the…