Twitter Inc suspended a bot account monitoring its proprietor Elon Musk’s personal jet. (Representational)
Twitter Inc suspended a bot account monitoring its proprietor Elon Musk’s personal jet, the account’s operator Jack Sweeney mentioned in a tweet on Wednesday.
The Twitter account tracked actions of Musk’s personal jet utilizing information obtainable within the public area.
Later within the day, Sweeney’s Twitter account was additionally suspended.
Musk mentioned in a tweet in November that his dedication to free speech “extends even to not banning the account following my airplane, regardless that that may be a direct private security threat”.
Sweeney, a 20-year-old scholar on the College of Central Florida, who additionally operates comparable bot accounts monitoring Musk’s jet on Fb, Instagram and Telegram, tweeted on Saturday that Ella Irwin, Twitter’s vp of belief and security, requested that the account be filtered and fewer seen to customers.
Twitter and Sweeney didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark.
In earlier media interviews, Sweeney mentioned he turned down a $5,000 supply from Musk in 2021 to close down the bot account.
Individually, Twitter accounts monitoring the jets of billionaire tech entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Invoice Gates have additionally been suspended.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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