Elon Jet, the Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk’s flights, has been permanently suspended TechCrunch

Update, 12/14/22, 5:50 PM ET: Twitter has now updated its Private information and media policy To block sharing of live location information. When ElonJet was banned, this policy was not yet public, and there was a delay of several hours between banning ElonJet and other flight tracker accounts.

Twitter account @employeewhich is used Publicly available data For tracking down the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s private jet, he was permanently suspended from Twitter.

“My commitment to freedom of speech extends even to not banning the account that follows my plane, even though doing so poses an immediate risk to personal safety,” Musk said. chirp On November 6, Musk appears to have changed his mind over the past month.

Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida student who created ElonJet, has operated similar bots that track the activity of private jets for tech tycoons like Mark Zuckerberg. However, none of Sweeney’s other accounts, including the one that tracks Elon Musk’s brother’s travels, were affected. Kambal Musk.

Update, 12/14/22, 2:30PM ET: Jack Sweeney’s personal account has been banned from Twitter, along with other automated flight tracker accounts he manages.

The account has been a sore spot for Musk for a long time. In January, Musk DMed Sweeney on Twitter and offered it to the student $5,000 to remove ElonJetBut he refused the offer.

“Any chance of increasing that to $50,000? It would be a huge boost in college and might allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3,” Sweeney replied, according to the DMs I got protocol in time.

Unfortunately, Musk will not pay Sweeney’s tuition.

According to Sweeney, @ElonJet has been closely watched on Twitter HQ. He posted on his personal account that an anonymous Twitter employee told him this The account had limited visibility On Dec. 2, Sweeney also posted a screenshot, allegedly leaked from Slack’s internal Twitter, that appears to show Trust and Security VP Ella Irwin asking the team to immediately apply high definition filtering to @ElonJet. TechCrunch emailed Irwin to confirm the legitimacy of the message.

After being suspended from Twitter, Sweeney created a Elon Jett Mastodon account.