Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, has suspended ElonJet, a Twitter account that tracked the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet. Jeff Bezos’ post-plane account has not been suspended.
An eerie coincidence? After two and a half years of existence, the Twitter account titled ElonJet was just suspended on December 14, 2022, because ” respect[rait] not Twitter rules “. It was its owner, student and developer Jack Sweeney, who published the screenshot of the Twitter notification on his personal account.
« After a thorough investigation, we’ve determined that your account violates Twitter rules. Your account is now “read-only,” which means you cannot tweet, retweet, or like content. You also won’t be able to create new accounts. “, we can read. When we click on the ElonJet link on Twitterwe come across a suspended account.
ElonJet account was traced by more than 520,000 Internet users, and had posted 1,500 tweets detailing the movements of the billionaire’s private plane. The main goal, shared by several accounts tracking the jet travel of the richest people in the world, is to show Musk’s potentially abusive use of an extremely polluting means of transport, in contradiction to his grandiose speeches ecologists aimed at promoting the merits of his electric cars Tesla to save the planet.
Thanks to public data, Jack Sweeney transmits a summary table and a flight map every time private jet number N628TS (Musk’s) takes off. This project now appears to break Twitter’s rules, which paradoxically didn’t seem to be the case in the last couple of years, before Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Another coincidence, surely: the BezosJet Twitter account, also powered by Jack Sweeney, who follows the movements of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ plane, did not jump.
Since December 11, Jack Sweeney has assured that Twitter was deliberately minimizing the visibility of the ElonJet account on the platform. In support, he posted a screenshot of a message purportedly sent by Ella Irwin, Twitter’s new “product and trust manager,” asking his Slack teams to enforce a ” heavy visibility filter “of the account. This screenshot could not be verified.
Did absolute freedom of expression stop at the door of Elon Musk’s harassment?
Elon Musk finalized the acquisition of Twitter in late October 2022 and has been making big announcements ever since. Although he assures that the platform will be better thanks to his changes, the billionaire seems increasingly embroiled in a $44 billion hellish nightmare.
Many internet users have raised the palpable inconsistency between the official speech of Elon Musk, who says he is in favor of “absolute freedom of expression” and wants to revive almost all banned accounts on the platform… but who would not, apparently, apply this same flexibility regarding the accounts that mess it up. This isn’t the only example either: the new Twitter boss quickly noticed that the parody accounts that abounded were funny only when they didn’t usurp… his own identity.
Fortunately, there are other platforms where Jack Sweeney is still spreading information about Elon Musk’s jet. Then you can follow:
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