{"id":39644,"date":"2023-07-10T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=39644"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:32:43","slug":"elonjet-tracker-moves-to-threads-after-musk-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/elonjet-tracker-moves-to-threads-after-musk-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"ElonJet tracker moves to Threads after Musk ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">College student Jack Sweeney has moved his ElonJet tracker to Meta&#8217;s Threads after being banned from Twitter last year.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The account, which uses the handle @elonmusksjet, tracks the movements of Elon Musk&#8217;s private jet using data available in the public domain. It had over 21,000 followers on Twitter before it was suspended.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">Sweeney has continued to track Musk&#8217;s flights on Instagram despite the lawsuit threat that never came to fruition. He has also made it clear that he is not backing down from tracking Musk&#8217;s jet, even on Threads.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">In his first post on Threads, Sweeney wrote: &#8220;ElonJet has arrived to Threads!&#8221; In a separate post, he appeared to reference his ban on Twitter, and asked: &#8220;@zuck will I be allowed to stay?&#8221; Sweeney&#8217;s Threads account has since gained a substantial following of 15,000 users.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Sweeney&#8217;s shift to Threads comes at a time when the Meta-owned Threads is offering a direct threat to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/suspended-twitter-account-tracking-elon-musks-jet-moves-rival-metas-threads-2023-07-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College student Jack Sweeney has moved his ElonJet tracker to Meta&#8217;s Threads after being banned from Twitter last year. The account, which uses the handle @elonmusksjet, tracks the movements of Elon Musk&#8217;s private jet using data available in the public domain. It had over 21,000 followers on Twitter before it was suspended. Sweeney has continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-39644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39646,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39644\/revisions\/39646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}