You Can Track Elon Musk's Jet on Twitter Again (With a 24-Hour Delay)

You can track Elon Musk’s private jet on Twitter again—albeit with a 24-hour delay.

After @ElonJet, run by 20-year-old college student Jack Sweeney,was banned earlier this monthwhen Musk came after accounts that revealed his live location, Sweeney was forced to document the billionaire’s private flights on other social media accounts instead.

In recent days, however, Sweeney launched@ElonJetNextDay(Opens in a new window), which posts the flights with a 24-hour delay, in a bid to circumvent Twitter’s nascentban on posting real-time location information(Opens in a new window).

@ElonJetNextDay, which launched on Dec. 22 and currently has 18.2K followers, is showing about five flights made by Musk’s plane as of Dec. 27. The flights include one from Oakland, California, that landed in Sacramento after a flyby of Las Vegas.

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The account publishes publicly available information that most commercial and private aircraft are required to broadcast in order to prevent midair collisions. Flight-tracking websites such asFlightRadar24(Opens in a new window)publish the same information.

Despite tweeting in November that he wouldn’t ban @ElonJet because of his “commitment to free speech(Opens in a new window),” Musk banned the account on Dec. 14. He added that he would pursue legal action against Sweeney for “facilitating harm” to his family after he alleged that a “crazy stalker(Opens in a new window)” followed a car carrying his 2-year-old son in Los Angeles. (The police have said there's no link between the flight data and the incident involving his son,The Washington Postreports(Opens in a new window).)

The ban came as Musk banned any account that displayed “real-time location info(Opens in a new window)." The Twitter CEO added that “posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.” It’s this rule that Sweeney clearly hopes will help @ElonJetNextDay stay online.

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However, Twitter users including Sweeney have reported that the account isshadowbanned. According to oneuser(Opens in a new window), the platform has marked @ElonJetNextDay as sensitive content, which hides it from search results. Mashable reporter Matt Binder additionallysaid(Opens in a new window)that Twitter is preventing users from sharing links to @ElonJet on other platforms.

提出根据粘结剂,发布这样的链接the message: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.”

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