Twitter has suspended the account tracking the location of Elon Musk's private jet, even though the social media's new owner had recently assured that "my commitment to free speech also affects the account tracking my plane, although this poses a risk to personal safety".
The @ElonJet account was run by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old Florida college student, who used publicly available flight tracking information to create an automatic Twitter alert whenever the 'Gulfstream' took off or landed. .
The news of the deletion of the profile was communicated by Sweeney himself who shared a screenshot of a message received from the social media: "After careful review,
The latest post from the account, which has over half a million followers, showed Musk's jet taking off from Oakland, California, on Monday and landing in Los Angeles 48 minutes later.
Before buying Twitter, the Tesla owner had offered the student $5,000 to close the account and "prevent crazy people from tracking his flights".
Sweeney had relaunched asking for $50,000 for college and a Tesla Model 3, but Musk hadn't accepted the counteroffer.