Twitter suspends bot account tracking Elon Musk's jet

The Elon Musk-led microblogging web site has suspended a larva account trailing its owner Elon Musk's personal jet, the account's operator Jack Sweeney same during a tweet.

The Twitter account half-tracked movements of Musk's personal jet victimization information on the market within the property right.

Later within the day, Sweeney's Twitter account was conjointly suspended.

Musk same during a tweet in Gregorian calendar month that his commitment to free speech "extends even to not forbiddance the account following my plane, despite the fact that that's an instantaneous personal safety risk".

Sweeney, a 20-year-old student at the University of Central American state, World Health Organization conjointly operates similar larva accounts trailing Musk's jet on Facebook, Instagram and message, tweeted on Sabbatum that Ella Irwin, Twitter's vp of trust and safety, requested that the account be filtered and fewer visible to users.

Twitter and Sweeney failed to forthwith answer Reuters requests for comment.

In previous media interviews, Sweeney same he turned down a $5,000 supply from Musk in 2021 to close up the larva account.

Separately, Twitter accounts trailing the jets of wealthy person school entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and William Henry Gates have conjointly been suspended.