ElonJet, a now-dormant Twitter account that followed and posted about billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet, has resurfaced on Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter competitor Threads, where it has attracted thousands of followers in just a few hours.
ElonJet’s founder, Jack Sweeney, has made a thread titled “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” to let the community know that he has joined them. Sweeney was kicked off the service because he used publicly available flight data to spy on Musk and other powerful people.
Musk was vulnerable with the account
A stalker tracked Elon Musk’s 2-year-old son by using position data from Sweeney’s ElonJet Twitter account, going so far as to block the car and climb onto the top. Musk tweeted about the event, writing, “Last night, a car carrying lil X in LA was followed by a crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked the car from moving & climbed onto the hood.”
Elon Musk was so enraged by the incident that he promptly deleted the ElonJet Twitter account and threatened legal action against Sweeney, who is still a student and majors in computer science at UCF. The popularity of Threads, a platform owned by Meta and created as an alternative to Twitter, has skyrocketed in the short time since its release.
Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Curry, Oprah Winfrey, and Shakira are just a few of the thousands of famous people who have signed up for the service. While competition is wonderful, cheating is not, and therefore Musk has filed a case against Meta after it released an app similar to Twitter. Meta’s CEO has even called out the company in a recent tweet.
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