The college student that followed Elon Musk’s private aircraft is back on Twitter, now with the hashtag ‘ElonJetNextDay.

Jack Sweeney started his first Twitter account to track Elon Musk’s plane in 2020. Jack Sweeney and Getty
A college student who followed Elon Musk’s private plane is now back on Twitter with a new username.

After Elon Musk banned his first account @ElonJet, a college student who had been following Elon Musk’s private plane is back on Twitter using a new username.

Jack Sweeney (20 years old) said that he began tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in 2020 as a fan. Two years later, the billionaire threatened him with a lawsuit after suspending his Twitter accounts.

Insider learned that Sweney will use the new username @ElonJetNextDay to continue tracking Musk’s private plane, but with a 24-hour delay. This is the second major change made by the billionaire to Twitter’s rules since he acquired the platform in October 27.

–ElonJet and Delayed (@ElonJetNextDay), December 22, 2022

Sweeney stated that he will continue to “post manually” until the framework is in place for automating. Sweeney said it was hard to predict when the account would be fully automated.

He also said that @ElonJet was still available on other platforms, such as Truth Social by former President Donald Trump. Sweeney said that he will also bring other accounts, such as @Celebjets, to platforms like Instagram or Facebook.

Sweeney managed over 30 accounts that tracked politicians and billionaires, including Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.

Musk had offered to pay Sweeney earlier this year to remove the old account, but he took issue with it after public information was shared online about whereabouts of other public figures, including after Musk claimed that a “crazy stalker”, followed his car with his two-year-old son in it.

Twitter announced at the same time a new policy that would ban posting someone’s location online in most cases. The update “to prohibit sharing another’s location in most cases,” stated Twitter. It also said that it would delete tweets and suspend accounts that share people’s locations.

Its new rules state that “sharing publicly available information about location after a reasonable period of time, so that an individual is not at risk for bodily harm”, is not a violation.

Musk tweeted December 15: “Any account that doesxxes real-time location information of any person will be suspended. It is a violation of physical safety.” Musk tweeted on December 15: “This includes posting links for sites that provide real-time location information.”

He said, “Posting the locations of people who traveled to them on a slightly delayed basis doesn’t pose a safety risk. So it is okay.”

Insider requested comment from Twitter but Twitter did not immediately respond.

Business Insider has the original article.
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By: stabahriti@insider.com (Sam Tabahriti)
Title: The college student who tracked Elon Musk’s private jet is now back on Twitter under ‘ElonJetNextDay’
Sourced From: www.businessinsider.com/college-student-who-tracks-elon-musks-jet-is-back-elonjetnextday-2022-12
Published Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:35:38 +0000