Twitter Inc suspended a bot account monitoring its proprietor Elon Musk’s non-public jet, the account’s operator Jack Sweeney mentioned in a tweet on Wednesday.
The Twitter account tracked actions of Musk’s non-public jet utilizing information accessible within the public area.
Later within the day, Sweeney’s Twitter account was additionally suspended.
Musk mentioned in a tweet in November that his dedication to free speech “extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk”.
Sweeney, a 20-year-old pupil on the University of Central Florida, who additionally operates comparable bot accounts monitoring Musk’s jet on Facebook, Instagram and Telegram, tweeted on Saturday that Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vice chairman of belief and security, requested that the account be filtered and fewer seen to customers.
Twitter and Sweeney didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark.
In earlier media interviews, Sweeney mentioned he turned down a $5,000 provide from Musk in 2021 to close down the bot account.
Separately, Twitter accounts monitoring the jets of billionaire tech entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have additionally been suspended. — Reuters
