ElonJet

ElonJet
Original author(s)Jack Sweeney
Developer(s)Ground Control[1] (GRNDCTRL LLC[1][2][3])
Repository
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Account as seen on Instagram, 2022

ElonJet is a service that uses social media accounts to track the real-time usage of Elon Musk's private airplane.[4][5][6] The service, created and provided by Jack Sweeney using public data, has accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Truth Social, Mastodon, Threads, and formerly on Twitter, where the Twitter account once had about 530,000 followers, before being suspended.[7][8][9] Several of the social media accounts use the handle @elonjet.[10]

The Twitter account, created in June 2020, had been targeted by Musk beginning in 2021. He offered to pay Sweeney $5,000; Sweeney countered requesting $50,000 or an internship in one of Musk's companies, and offered advice on restricting flight tracking data. Musk blocked Sweeney in January 2021[dubious – discuss]. In late 2022, after Musk purchased Twitter, he announced he would not ban the ElonJet account.[11] In December, a stalker followed Elon's 2-year-old son while he was traveling in a car; the stalker thought Musk was in the car.[12] After the incident, the account was restricted and then blocked along with Sweeney's personal and other flight tracking accounts, as part of the December 2022 Twitter account suspensions.[13] Later, shortly after the incident, accounts of several journalists were reinstated.[14]

On December 22, 2022, Sweeney started the new @ElonJetNextDay Twitter account, which continues to track the flights of Elon Musk's private jets, but publishes flight location information on a 24-hour delay in compliance with Twitter's new rules that "sharing publicly available location information after a reasonable time has elapsed, so that the individual is no longer at risk for physical harm" is not a violation.[15]

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  11. ^ @elonmusk (November 7, 2022). "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Elon Musk furious after man follows car carrying son; warns account suspensions over doxxing". Free Press Journal. Archived from the original on 2023-09-07. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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  15. ^ Tabahriti, Sam (December 22, 2022). "The college student who tracked Elon Musk's private jet is now back on Twitter under 'ElonJetNextDay'". Insider. Archived from the original on 23 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.