The account that was posting Elon Musk’s private travels (which he suspended and blocked on Twitter) is now back but on Thre*ds.
Sweeney’s new Thread account already has 80,000 followers, he told CNN on Monday.
“This is the most I’ve had since my Twitter account was suspended,” he said. “There’s still a lot of people who are interested in this.”
Meta (FB), which also owns Facebook and Instagram, had 70 million Thread sign-ups in less than 48 hours. Sweeney told CNN the had a Threads account within hours of when it first became available, because it was easy to set up using his existing Instagram Elon jet account.
The account tracking Musk’s jet already appears to have been suspended and subsequently restored on both Threads and Instagram (where it’s been active for months) in the last few days.
Elon Musk suspended the @ElonJet Twitter account in December last year claiming that the tracker was a “direct personal safety risk.” Prior to this suspension, Musk said he wouldn’t ban the account as part of his “commitment to free speech.” Sweeney also runs several other trackers on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky that monitor the flight paths of private jets for notables like Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Kim Kardashian.
One of Elon Musk’s least-favorite Twitter users is moving to Meta’s competing platform Threads.
Jack Sweeney — the 20-year-old Florida college student who started the ElonJet Twitter account that used a bot to track the location of Musk’s private jet using publicly available data — started an account named “elonmusksjet” on Threads last week soon after Meta launched the platform.
Sweeney’s project gained notoriety in early 2022 when Musk offered him $5,000 to stop posting his plane’s location, and the student replied with a request for $50,000. Musk, who was worth more than $200 billion at that time according to estimates, turned down his request.
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