New Delhi: Jack Sweeney, who created a Twitter bot that tracks Elon Musk’s Gulfstream private jet and posts real-time updates of its location from publicly available data, has moved on to Twitter-rival threads on Matter after being suspended from the microblogging platform last year.
Sweeney created the thread “ElonMusksJet” to continue his project to track the movements of Musk’s private jet. “Tracking Elon Musk’s private jet (N628TS) with a bot using public ADS-B data grndcntrlnet,” reads his bio in the thread.
So far, the account has gained over 50,000 followers. “Alonjet has arrived on the thread!” Sweeney wrote in his first post, later asking Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “Will I be allowed to stay?”.
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In December last year, Sweeney was removed from Twitter after Musk said that following his jet was like having “murder coordinates”.
“Any account doxing real-time location information will be suspended, as it is a physical security breach. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location information,” Musk said in December.
Threads became available last week to users in more than 100 countries, including the US, India, Britain, Japan and Australia.
It has now surpassed 90 million user sign-ups, and is currently the top free app on the App Store.
