Sweeney is back with a new account called @ElonJetNexDay, which still tracks Musk’s flight but adds a 24-hour delay to the location, TechCrunch reports.
Sweeney’s effort appears to be an effort to comply with Twitter’s new rules, which state that “public information is allowed after a reasonable period of time so that the individual is no longer at risk of physical harm.” But the account recently went online, so it’s not yet clear whether Twitter will see the event that way.
Sweeney and the @ElonJet account have been on Musk’s radar for a while. In January, a few months before Musk announced a deal to buy Twitter, he offered Sweeney $5,000 to delete the account. Sweeney turned down the offer and asked for $50,000 instead. At that time, @ElonJet had over half a million followers.
@ElonJet is back on Twitter
The ban comes after Elon Musk said a car carrying his son XÆA-12 was being followed by a stalker in Los Angeles. Twitter soon told Sweeney that his account was “breaking the Twitter rules,” but did not specify which ones. Musk later said he would take “legal action” against Sweeney and “organizations that support the harm to his family.”
Sweeney’s @ElonJet tracking bot currently has 67,000 followers on Mastadon and follows the jets owned by Musk and others on Facebook and Instagram.