Twitter suspends account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk's private jet

KEY POINTS

• The Twitter account used to track billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet was suspended as of Wednesday morning. 
• The account, @elonjet, was run by Florida college student Jack Sweeney and had amassed more than half a million followers. It tracked Musk’s location using publicly available flight data. 
• Musk had claimed he was such a staunch advocate for free speech that he would not ban the plane tracking account, which he called a “direct personal safety risk.” 

Twitter has suspended the account dedicated to tracking the location of billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet.

The account, @ElonJet, was run by Florida college student Jack Sweeney and had amassed more than half a million followers. It tracked Musk’s plane’s location using publicly available flight data and appears to have been suspended Wednesday morning.

“Well it appears @ElonJet is suspended,” Sweeney tweeted Wednesday. He encouraged users to follow him on other platforms.

Sweeney said in a tweet Wednesday afternoon that his account dedicated to tracking employee jets at Musk’s company SpaceX was also suspended. Shortly afterward, his personal account was suspended.

“This is coordinated and Elon is well aware I’m sure,” he wrote before his account was deleted.

In a tweet Wednesday evening, Musk said real-time posting of another person’s location violates Twitter’s doxxing policy, but that “delayed posting of locations are ok.” The change will be updated in the language of the company’s doxxing policy, he added.