Twitter Suspends Account Used to Track Elon Musk's Private Jet Despite Promise Not to Ban it

Twitter has banned the account which is used in detecting the private jet of Elon Musk.

Despite promising that he would protect Jack Sweeney's account, the billionaire did not live up to his vow of safeguarding the free speech of the users on the platform.

Twitter Suspends Tracking Account of Sweeney

According to a report by The Independent, the @ElonJet Twitter account owned by Sweeney was now suspended on the microblogging site just a month after Musk said that he won't ban it.

"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk," Musk posted on Nov. 7.

This account is dedicated to solely tracking the location and the movement of the business tycoon's private jet. At the time of suspension on Wednesday, Dec. 14, it already had more than 500,000 followers.

Although it was already confirmed that it was permanently banned, Sweeney urged his followers to follow him on other sites outside Twitter.

As such, he plans to re-launch the account on Mastodon, a known competitor of Twitter.

It appears that Sweeney's hunch of facing a shadow-ban on his account became true after some suspicions. However, it was immediately restored and it even managed to operate in the next few days.

What Drove Sweeney to Create a Tracking Account

Since Tesla rose to fame a few years ago, Sweeney has always admired what it had accomplished. So far, he had been dreaming of driving a Tesla car one day because it's his dream car.

According to CNBC, the early November report suggests that Musk vowed to never suspend Sweeney's plane tracking account even though he called it a "direct personal safety risk."

In a previous interview, he told the news outlet that the Tesla CEO once offered to give him $5,000 in exchange for removing his tracking account on Twitter.

Musk is not the only person of interest that Sweeney eyes to track. In fact, several personalities across the tech industry and politics have caught his attention including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and even former US President Donald Trump.

The 20-year-old student also has various accounts that he uses when he wants to know the location of their private planes.

Meanwhile, Tech Times reported that Twitter Blue Subscription is now requiring users to verify their account using a phone number. Twitter believes that re-launching the feature would improve the overall service of the social media app.

According to the platform, the new accounts will be held for 90 days before registering as eligible accounts for the Twitter Blue subscription service.

Moreover, those inactive accounts which have had no activity in the last 30 days won't be eligible for the process.