University student Jack Sweeney has launched the @ElonJetNextDay account on Twitter. The account has amassed more than 17,100 followers in four days.
An account whose sole purpose is to track Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s private jet is back on the blue bird app nearly two weeks after Musk changed the rules to kick it off the platform. Whether it will manage to stay on the platform Musk rules with an iron fist is an open question.
In recent days, 20-year-old university student Jack Sweeney launched @ElonJetNextDay on Twitter, an account that posts public information on the flights made by Musk’s plane. Unlike Sweeney’s original @ElonJet account, which was designed to track the billionaire’s jet in real-time, @ElonJetNextDay tweets out Musk’s flights 24 hours after they occur to comply with Twitter’s new rules prohibiting posts with real-time location information.
As of Monday evening, @ElonJetNextDay had tweeted about five of Musk’s flights since Dec. 23 and amassed more than 17,100 followers in four days. Sweeney told Insider that he is currently posting to @ElonJetNextDay manually but is working on automating the account in the future. The 20-year-old manages automated accounts for @ElonJet on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and other platforms, which do post real-time information on Musk’s flights.
Although Sweeney’s new @ElonJetNextDay has managed to stay on Twitter for the past four days, that doesn’t guarantee it safety from suspension. On Dec. 25, Sweeney claimed that Musk had already shadowbanned @ElonJetNextDay. In addition, Mashable reporter Matt Binder found that Twitter had prohibited users from sharing links to @ElonJet on other platforms.
