© Reuters. The logo of the Meta Threads app and Elon Musk’s Twitter account are seen in this illustration taken July 7, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) – Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Twitter rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.
“ElonJet has reached the threads!” Read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the @elonmusksjet account, which had more than 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.
ElonJet tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet using data available in the public domain.
in December Twitter Inc (NYSE:), owned by Musk, has suspended ElonJet’s account, as the billionaire threatened legal action against the account’s operator after he said his son had been mistakenly followed by a “crazy stalker.”
The owned meta threads, which pose a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including such luminaries as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they sought to capitalize on their rival’s weak state after a series of chaotic decisions from Musk.
Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.