Jack Sweeney, the student behind the @ElonJet Twitter bot, set out to monitor the landings and takeoffs of Elon Musk’s private jet, which had been put on hold by the mogul himself. created a profile again despite the new social media policy. A policy that specifically prohibits the publication of any type of real-time location. new account; @ElonJetNextDayIn fact, he manages to circumvent the condition that the magnate set. He tracks the Gulfstream G650, also owned by the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. but it does so 24 hours late.
Recall that the @ElonJet account was deleted on the orders of Elon Musk, despite the fact that the leader initially stated that he did not do this as part of his commitment to freedom of expression on Twitter. Later, Musk confirmed that he blocked the profile due to a new policy on the platform.: Block “any account that provides real-time location information of any person,” he tweeted. That ban, in turn, was implemented after the tycoon claimed someone was trying to follow the car his son was in, believing it was him. Jack Sweeney’s personal profile has also been removed from the social network.
Sweeney, however, spotted the mogul’s remark in the same tweet where he announced the new policy. In that, Elon Musk clarified that “publishing places where someone has traveled with a slight delay is not a security issue, so that’s fine.”. This is exactly what @ElonJetNextDay is doing. The profile details the takeoff and landing of a private jet. Also up-to-date information such as location or flight duration. It is, yes, given that the journey was “24 hours ago”.
Elon Musk even offered $5,000 to the creator of the bot to delete his account.
So Jack Sweeney’s new profile could be an interesting alternative for those Twitter users who have had fun checking where Elon Musk’s plane is flying. In any case, he can also be followed in real time through a bot created by a student at Mastodon, in which he already has 67,000 subscribers.
Interestingly, Elon Musk went so far as to offer Jack Sweeney $5,000 to delete @ElonJet’s Twitter profile. “I don’t like the idea of being shot by a psycho,” Musk said. Sweeney refused to do so, even jokingly offering the Model 3 or $50,000 in exchange for deactivating the profile. The student came to sign that thanks to this account he learned to program and got a job part time as a developer at UberJets.
Source: Hiper Textual
