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Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>

"ElonJet has arrived to Threads!" read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.>

ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain.>

In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker".>

Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including prominent figures such as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as it seeks to take advantage of its rival's weakened state after a series of chaotic decisions from Musk.>

Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.> Reporting by Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama>

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's on mastodon too https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

I think with the entire federation business one should be able to follow it from lemmy too but it's not working for me. If i got to /u/[email protected] on lemmy then it shows me 0 posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Works for me on kbin (at https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected] (note the initial @, which may be a kbin thing))
Lemmy does the Mastodon thing too? Some critter(s) said that was only a kbin thing. Yay confusion! :3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Lemmy doesn’t currently support microblogging and I’m not sure whether they plan to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, added so I can be amused.