Article 66VF2 Twitter banned the @ElonJet account tracking Musk’s flights, reinstated it, then banned it again

Twitter banned the @ElonJet account tracking Musk’s flights, reinstated it, then banned it again

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Jay Peters
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acastro_STK050_07.0.jpg Twitter doesn't seem to like the jet-tracker's creator. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Hours after suspending @ElonJet, an account that tracked the trips taken by Elon Musk's private plane, Twitter banned the account's creator, Jack Sweeney, and dozens of other accounts he operates. Twitter then un-suspended @ElonJet, which was briefly tweeting to try and get its account back before Twitter banned it again.

If you try and visit @ElonJet or Sweeney's account, you'll see a message that the account has been suspended. Twitter has also been blocking links to versions of the Elon Jet tracker on other platforms, like Instagram and Facebook. Attempting to tweet certain links to Sweeney's Elon Musk jet tracker on other platforms will display a message that the link is potentially harmful," as spotted by Tony Webster.

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