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Elon Musk’s Jet-Tracking Nemesis Is Back on Twitter Under a New Name

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College student Jack Sweeney said he would resume tracking Musk’s jet, but would use a 24-hour delay and would write posts manually.

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Jack Sweeney, the college student who was booted from Twitter for tracking the movements of new CEO Elon Musk’s private jet, is back online under a new name. Sweeney’s @ElonJet account and his personal account were removed when Musk claimed that the tracker had allowed a “crazy stalker” to attack a car carrying his son in L.A.—an incident that happened 23 hours after @ElonJet’s most recently tracked flight, and 26 miles away from the airport. Sweeney told Insider he was back on Twitter as @ElonJetNextDay, and would still be tracking Musk’s jet, but would use a 24-hour delay and would write posts manually rather than using a bot to automatically parse publicly available flight data. Sweeney still has more than 30 accounts tracking the jets of other billionaires and politicians, and @ElonJet still lives on other platforms like Donald Trump’s Truth Social.

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