The college student tracking Musk's private jet opened his secondary account and was restricted by Twitter.
CTOnews.com news on December 28, Musk blocked the account @ ElonJet that posted his real-time flight information on Twitter, which belongs to Sweeney, a sophomore at the University of Central Florida, but later created an account called @ ElonJetNextDay, which has the same setting as his original account @ ElonJet, except that Musk will no longer share the whereabouts of Musk's private jet in real time, but will have a 24-hour delay. To comply with Twitter's new rule banning the posting of real-time location information.
Since December 23, @ ElonJetNextDay has posted information about Musk's five flights on Twitter and has gained more than 18500 followers in four days. Sweeney says he is currently posting manually and is working to automate the account in the future. His @ ElonJet account on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and other platforms posts automatically, and these accounts are still posting real-time information about Musk flights.
CTOnews.com learned that although Sweeney's new account @ ElonJetNextDay has been successfully left on Twitter in the past four days, there is no guarantee that it will not be deactivated in the future. On December 25, Sweeney claimed that the @ ElonJetNextDay account had actually been shadowbanned. In addition, Mashable reporter Matt Binder found that Twitter has banned users from sharing @ ElonJet links on other platforms.
In addition, it is not clear whether Sweeney will be allowed to create new Twitter accounts. Twitter's policy forbids "evading the ban", which prohibits users whose accounts have been suspended from creating new accounts. Once discovered, Twitter will block accounts that try to evade the ban. The company said at its help center: "if an account is permanently deactivated for serious violations of Twitter rules, Twitter reserves the right to permanently deactivate any other account that we believe that the same account holder or entity may violate our previous inactivity, regardless of when the other account was created."
It is not clear whether Twitter will completely block the @ ElonJetNextDay account, after Musk said, "posting someone's slightly delayed travel location is not a security issue, so it is possible."
