© Reuters. Meta Threads app emblem and Elon Musk Twitter account are seen on this illustration taken, July 7, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) – Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account monitoring Elon Musk’s non-public jet in actual time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter final 12 months.
“ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” learn Sweeney’s first submit on Thursday from the account deal with @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.
ElonJet has tracked the actions of Musk’s non-public jet utilizing knowledge out there within the public area.
In December Twitter Inc (NYSE:), owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening authorized motion in opposition to the account’s operator after saying his son had been mistakenly adopted by a “loopy stalker”.
Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct problem to Twitter, garnered tens of millions of customers in hours, together with distinguished figures reminiscent of Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, because it seeks to make the most of its rival’s weakened state after a collection of chaotic choices from Musk.
Sweeney, Twitter and Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.