Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old boy, became a headache for Elon Musk, by tracking your jet’s trajectory live. From there, the billionaire decided, first, to pay him $5,000 to stop doing it; then permanently suspend his Twitter account, ElonJet.
Now Sweeney came back with another account, but the change he made for his return is decisive: it will not track the account live, but with a 24-hour delay.
The new Twitter account to see the trajectory of Elon Musk’s plane is called ElonJetNextDay, and by the morning of this Monday it already has 16.7 thousand followers.
This version does not violate Twitter’s new privacy policy, by not revealing the live location. The platform updated its policy to protect Elon Musk, that he considered that the tracing affected not only him, but his family.
Sweeney chatted with Business Insider, explaining that he will “post manually” for now, while working on the framework to fully automate the account.
Tracking of every Elon Musk flight includes trajectory, information on the amount of fuel consumed, cost and CO2 emissions.
This is how you can track the path of Elon Musk’s jet
How does Jack Sweeney manage to track down Elon Musk’s jet, a 2015 Gulfstream G650ER? points The Verge that most commercial and private aircraft are equipped with automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B) transmission technology.
This technology transmits a unique code linked to the aircraft’s tail number, containing information such as altitude and GPS location.
The information is publicly available, and aircraft flying in the United States and Europe must transmit it to avoid mid-air crashes.
Both Sweeney and the journalists reporting on ElonJet were suspended from the social network on December 16, with some accounts reinstated two days later after Elon Musk conducted a poll.