Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s jet moves to rival Meta’s Threads

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account monitoring Elon Musk’s non-public jet in actual time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter final 12 months.

“ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” learn Sweeney’s first publish on Thursday from the account deal with @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.

ElonJet has tracked the actions of Musk’s non-public jet utilizing information out there within the public area.

In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening authorized motion in opposition to the account’s operator after saying his son had been mistakenly adopted by a “crazy stalker”.

Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct problem to Twitter, garnered hundreds of thousands of customers in hours, together with outstanding figures comparable to Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because it seeks to reap the benefits of its rival’s weakened state after a collection of chaotic selections from Musk.

Sweeney, Twitter and Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

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