New Delhi: Jack Sweeney, who created a Twitter bot that tracks Elon Musk’s Gulfstream non-public jet and posts real-time updates of its location from publicly accessible knowledge, has moved to Meta’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from the microblogging platform final yr.
Sweeney created “ElonMusksJet” on Threads to proceed his mission of monitoring the actions of Musk’s non-public jet. “Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet (N628TS) with a bot using public ADS-B data grndcntrlnet,” reads his bio on Threads.
As of now, the account has garnered 50,000 followers. “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” Sweeney wrote in his first put up, later asking Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “will I be allowed to stay?”.
In December final yr, Sweeney was faraway from Twitter after Musk mentioned following his jet was like placing out “assassination coordinates”.
“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info,” Musk mentioned in December.
Threads turned accessible final week to customers in over 100 international locations — together with the US, India, Britain, Japan and Australia.
It has now crossed 90 million person sign-ups, and it’s at present the highest free app on the App Store.
