Global Courant
July 8 — Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has switched to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.
“ElonJet has arrived at Threads!” read Sweeney’s first after on Thursday from the account name @elonmusksjet, which had more than 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.
ElonJet tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet using data available in the public domain.
In December, Musk-owned Twitter Inc. announced suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account’s operator after saying his son had been accidentally followed by a “mad stalker”.
Threads, owned by Meta, posed a direct challenge to Twitter, garnering millions of users within hours, including such prominent figures as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as it seeks to capitalize on its weakened state. rival after a series of chaotic decisions by Musk.
Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Suspended Twitter account that Elon Musk’s jet is moving to Threads
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