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Dan Mihalascu

Twitter Suspends "ElonJet" Tracker Although Musk Had Pledged Not To

Twitter has suspended the ElonJet bot account that was tracking the takeoffs and landings of Elon Musk's private jet using publicly available data.

Created by 20-year-old University of Central Florida student Jack Sweeney, the Twitter bot used to tweet every time the billionaire's 2015 Gulfstream G650ER business jet (callsign N628TS) took off and landed. The tracker used public data from Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) transponders.

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