The ElonJet account, which had amassed more than 500,000 followers, was removed as the company posted a new set of edicts that appeared to be designed specifically to justify the removal of the jet-tracking account.
Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk's private jet online has a new aviation-themed target: Russian oligarchs and billionaires.on Wednesday permanently suspended an account that tracked the location of Elon Musk's private jet, despite the social media company's owner vowing last month he would leave the account up as part of his "commitment to free speech.
Sweeney, a student at the University of Central Florida, recalled his surprise receiving the message in an interview with CNN Wednesday. Sweeney said he setup @ElonJet initially because he was a Musk fan. "It gives you just another view that a lot of people don't know about whereRELATED: Elon Musk offers Florida teen $5K to delete Twitter account tracking his jet
In Twitter parlance, "VF" means "visibility filtering" which throttles the reach of certain accounts.The restrictions around location sharing were not part of Twitter's existing policies until this week.
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