The College Student Who Monitors Elon Musk's Private Jet Notes Twitter CEO's Discomfort with the Account

A university student who monitors the movements of Elon Musk's aircraft declared that the entrepreneur appears to be greatly irritated by his activity. Jack Sweeney's statements came after Elon's interview with the BBC in which he talked about prohibiting the Twitter account @ElonJet. As per Sweeney, Elon's visible irritation towards the said account only serves to amplify its importance.

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The individual studying at university who manages a Twitter profile monitoring Elon Musk's personal airplane relayed that the head of Tesla appears to be greatly annoyed by the account, based on remarks the billionaire gave during his recent interview with BBC News.

On Tuesday, Musk had a conversation with James Clayton, a BBC journalist, covering a range of topics related to his acquisition of Twitter worth $44 billion. The conversation also delved into various issues affecting the company, such as massive layoffs and the @ElonJet account being blocked in December.

When questioned about "@ElonJet", Musk was not forthcoming with a response and simply replied with "What about it?"

According to Clayton, prohibiting Sweeney's account was a topic of debate and raised the question of whether or not Musk was exerting too much power.

According to Musk, it is not permissible to carry out real-time doxxing.

As per the Cambridge Dictionary, doxxing can be defined as the act of discovering and revealing confidential information of an individual on the internet.

Sweeney utilized bots to extract and distribute flight information that can easily be accessed by anyone through ADS-B Exchange.

Clayton had claimed that Sweeney had relied only on publicly accessible information, but Musk disagreed and stated that Sweeney had utilized both public and undisclosed information. Nevertheless, Musk did not disclose what specific non-public information Sweeney had used.

On Thursday, Sweeney informed Insider that the clear irritation towards ElonJet only amplifies the importance of ElonJet. He simply desires it to be less noticeable.

Sweeney mentioned that it was likely accurate that he resided inside the thoughts of the billionaire without paying any rent.

During the beginning of 2022, Musk proposed to Sweeney that he should put an end to the sharing of flight information by offering him an amount of $5,000. On the other hand, Sweeney requested a more significant sum of $50,000 in order to comply with Musk's request. Despite this, Musk never took the initiative to follow through with his proposal.

Following the prohibition of the @ElonJet account, Sweeney initiated a process of publishing flight data on the @ElonJetNextDay account, but with a 24-hour lag to comply with Twitter's enhanced policies on confidential user data, which hindered users from sharing real-time whereabouts of individuals.

On top of that, Twitter put a stop to a total of 30 additional accounts that were monitoring the routes of exclusive airplanes belonging to well-known figures like Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, by utilizing freely accessible flight information.

Musk and Twitter were contacted by Insider for their input. However, the inquiry was met with an automated response from the company, which did not provide a response to the message.