Twitter suspended a well-liked account Wednesday that was monitoring the non-public jet of the corporate’s CEO Elon Musk.
Those who visited the @ElonJet profile have been greeted with: “Account suspended: Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.”
The widespread bot account was run by Jack Sweeney, a freshman on the University of Central Florida, who beforehand claimed that the account’s visibility was “limited/restricted to a severe degree internally.”
The account, which amassed greater than half one million followers, was monitoring Musk’s aircraft’s location utilizing public information.
The suspension got here one month after Musk underscored his dedication to “free speech” in a tweet.
“My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk,” he wrote.