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Elon Musk’s Twitter suspended the account that track’s the billionaire’s private jet on Wednesday but failed to address other accounts that follow the travel of dozens of celebrities.
Twenty-year-old Jack Sweeney has over 30 jet-tracking accounts on Twitter that track numerous public figures, including Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as celebrities like Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.
On Wednesday, Sweeney’s @elonjet account on Twitter had a notice on it saying it had been suspended because “Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.” But, as of Wednesday afternoon, @ZuccJet and @CelebJets, as well as his other jet-tracking accounts were still posting travel updates.
Sweeney, Musk, and a Twitter spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.
The suspension could be a part of Musk’s attempts to boot bot accounts off the platform, as Sweeney’s accounts use bots to post travel data from the ADS-B Exchange, which is an independent jet-tracking website that uses publicly available data to display an aircraft’s location.
Musk has been very vocal on Twitter this week about his plans to eliminate bots, saying on Saturday that “bots are in for a real surprise.” On Tuesday, Platformer reported that Twitter accidentally blocked dozens of real Twitter users from accessing the site while trying to eliminate spam accounts.
