Banned Elon Musk Jet-Tracking Twitter Account Reemerges on Threads

A social media feed banned from Twitter for tracking Elon Musk’s private plane has reemerged on Mark Zuckerberg’s freshly launched Threads platform.

Shortly after purchasing Twitter for $44 billion at the end of October, one of Musk’s first orders of business several weeks later was suspending the account @ElonJet.

The world’s richest man — a self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist with a penchant for spreading conspiracy theories — claimed the Twitter feed giving the location of his private jet in real time posed a threat to his family’s security.

That social media feed, started by 20-year-old college student Jack Sweeney, returned last week when Zuckerberg launched Threads, which threatens the existence of Musk’s embattled platform.

Sweeney told CNN his Threads account ElonJet almost immediately attracted 80,000 followers on Zuckerberg’s rapidly growing platform, which attracted a mind-blowing 100 million users in its first five days of operations, according to its owner.

“There’s still a lot of people who are interested in this,” Sweeney said of his Musk spotter.

He told CNN that managing his tracking program requires little effort. An internal review of Sweeney’s Threads account determined it met the community standards of Zuckerberg’s tech giant Meta, which also operates Facebook and Instagram.

The University of Central Florida sophomore claimed early last year that Musk offered him $5,000 to shutdown @ElonJet, but refused his counteroffer to up the ante.

Musk, the world’s richest man, has continually lashed out at Zuckerberg since Threads launched. On Thursday, Twitter threatened to sue its unwelcomed competitor for being a “copycat.”

Musk tweeted Sunday “Zuck is a cuck,” implying Zuckerberg is servile, then suggested he and his rival should measure their penises.

The billionaire tech bros also expressed their intent to fight in a cage match last month. It’s unclear when that fight might happen.

Musk, whose Tesla car company makes him worth $242 billion according to Forbes, has struggled to make Twitter profitable. Courting advertisers has proven tricky for the platform that lost more than half its value since Musk’s acquisition, according to the 52-year-old entrepreneur. Twitter’s also been plagued by technical issues Musk has sometimes struggled to explain.

The platform, launched in 2006, has nearly 238 million active daily users, according to bankmysell.com. Musk‘s 147.5 million followers make him Twitter’s most popular user.

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