July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>

“ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.>

ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet using data available in the public domain.>

In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account’s operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a “crazy stalker”.>

Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including prominent figures such as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as it seeks to take advantage of its rival’s weakened state after a series of chaotic decisions from Musk.>

Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.> Reporting by Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama>

  • zabil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    2 years ago

    If there is anything that’s good about threads; it’s what it’s doing to Musk and Twitter.

    Having said that it’s not a place I’m ever planning on venturing into.

    • TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      I’m in the same boat. I didn’t think I’d end up caring about Threads much, especially since it didn’t even launch where I live.

      But seeing how much Musk hates it has been pretty funny.

  • Sivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    320·
    2 years ago

    I find it strange how most people seem fine with this kind of thing. It’s probably safe to assume there are threats against Elon Musks life, and against that of his kids, not to mention the risk of abduction or worse. Tracking his plane makes it all the more easier.

    So again… what’s wrong with you that you not only don’t see the harm, but even seem to celebrate this as some kind of twisted sweet revenge for actions that haven’t even harmed you in any way?

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I believe the tracker guy posts with a delay too, so by the time anyone sees it on threads, Elon will have already gone.