Jack Sweeney, the person behind the controversial Twitter account “@ElonJet,” which tracks Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s private jet, has noted that his jet-tracking account has been shadowbanned. Sweeney made the claim through his personal Twitter account on Sunday. On December 2, Sweeney claimed ...
Elon Musk offered a teenager $5,000 to stop tracking his private jet, but I guess he wasn’t open to negotiations. In this post: Musk doesn’t want his private jet tracked I’m not sure there’s a solution here? Bottom line Musk doesn’t want his private jet tracked Tech (multi-hu...
A University of Central Florida student originally built a bot to track Elon Musk’s private jet. The 19-year-old is now applying that same algorithm to Russian oligarchs. But by later Wednesday, Twitter suspended all of them, including Sweeney's personal account. He also operates accounts tra...
Elon Musk’s private jets have been quite active this year, taking to the skies a total of 441 times as of December 14, according to data from the jet-tracking site JetSpy. Musk owns two Gulfstream private jets: a G650ER (registered N628TS) and a G550 (registered N272BG). The...
started in 2020 when Sweeney was a teenager, automatically posted the Gulfstream jet's flights with a map and an estimate of the amount of jet fuel and carbon emissions it expended. Sweeney said he originally started the Musk jet tracker because "I was interested in him as a fan of Tesla...
Musk didn’t take the bait. Though the two haven’t interacted since early 2021, @elonjet has clearly weighed heavily on Musk’s mind. After acquiring Twitter, Musk tweeted that Sweeney’s account was a personal “safety” risk but he wouldn’t remove it. ...
But this was no social call: The Tesla CEO had a bone to pick with Sweeney – and a Twitter bot that he created called "Elon Musk's Jet," located at @Elonjet. The bot tracks Musk's private jet and tweets its location. Musk reached out to Sweeney to ask him to take it do...
After all, Sweeney didn’t have just a personal account. He’s better known to Twitter users as the operator of the Musk private-jet-tracking account (@elonjet). But in one fell swoop Sweeney’s personal account, plus the one he uses to track Musk’s plane, plus the accounts he uses...
The account tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet using publicly available flight data and gives automated alerts. Reuters A Twitter Inc. account tracking the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet has been suspended from the social media platform. ...
Sweeney said he originally started the Musk jet tracker because “I was interested in him as a fan of Tesla and SpaceX." In the weeks since the Tesla CEO took over Twitter, the @elonjet account has chronicled Musk's many cross-country journeys from his home base near Tesla's headquarters...