'ElonJet' Creator Brings His Flight-Tracking Account To Twitter Competitor Threads

LTC Eugene Chu
..."Sweeney has continued to track Musk’s flights on Instagram despite the lawsuit threat that never came to fruition. Sweeney went so far as to repost a follower’s comment, calling the suit an “empty threat.” At the time of writing, Sweeney’s Threads account has already garnered 15,000 followers since the app launched on Wednesday night.

Meta did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment about Sweeney’s account and whether it goes against company policy.

It isn’t clear whether creating an account to track Musk’s movements on his private jet goes against Threads’ terms and conditions. Sweeney’s Twitter account was suspended on December 15 after revealing Musk’s publicly available tracking information, but Musk said that after a careful review, Sweeney’s account would be permanently suspended “as it is a physical safety violation.”

Musk said in the tweet: “Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.” Supporters of Sweeney have pointed out that he’s just sharing public information.

Sweeney was in charge of numerous accounts on Twitter that tracked personal flights of wealthy individuals including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. All accounts were banned alongside Sweeney’s ElonJet account."...