The college student who tracked Elon Musk’s private jet is back on Twitter with a new username {@ElonJetNextDay} after the billionaire banned his earlier account @ElonJet for breaking Twitter rules.
Jack Sweeney said he started tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in 2020 because he was a fan of him. Two years later he suspended his Twitter accounts after the billionaire threatened to sue him.
Using the new username {@ElonJetNextDay}, Sweeney will continue to track Musk’s private jet, but with a 24-hour delay, Insider has learned. The move comes after the billionaire changed the rules of Twitter, where he has become the new CEO since he acquired the platform 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
In an interview with Insider on Thursday, Sweeney said he’ll be posting manually “for now” because “the framework to automate isn’t there yet.” He said it is difficult to say when the account will be fully automated.
He added that @ElonJet is still available elsewhere such as on former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social. Sweeney told Insider that he will also be bringing other accounts like @Celebjets to platforms like Instagram and Facebook. Sweeney had more than 30 accounts tracking politicians and billionaires, including Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
But Elon Musk, who earlier this year offered to pay Sweeney to delete the old account, made public information about his and other public figures’ whereabouts after sharing it online, saying that a ” The mad hunter” is being chased. A car in which he had a two-year-old son.
Twitter posted around the same time what it said was a new policy to ban the posting of one’s live location in most cases. It said the update was meant to prohibit sharing of someone else’s live location in most cases, adding that it would remove tweets dedicated to sharing people’s live locations and suspend accounts.
According to its new rules, it is not a violation to share publicly available location information after a reasonable amount of time has passed so that the person is not at risk of physical harm. Elon Musk tweeted on December 15, “Any account docketing real-time location information of any individual will be suspended, as this is a physical security breach.