ElonJet

ElonJet

Original author(s)	Jack Sweeney
Developer(s)	Ground Control[1] (GRNDCTRL LLC[1][2][3])
Repository	github.com/Jxck-S/plane-notify
Website	grndcntrl.net/falconlanding/

ElonJet is a service that uses social media accounts to track the real-time private airplane usage of Elon Musk.^[4][5][6] The service, created and provided by Jack Sweeney using public data, has accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Truth Social, Mastodon, Threads, and formerly on Twitter, where the Twitter account once had about 530,000 followers, before being suspended.^[7][8][9] Several of the social media accounts use the handle @elonjet.^[10]

The Twitter account, created in June 2020, had been targeted by Musk beginning in 2021. He offered to pay Sweeney $5,000; Sweeney countered requesting $50,000 or an internship in one of Musk's companies, and offered advice on restricting flight tracking data. Musk blocked Sweeney in January 2021^{[dubious – discuss]}. In late 2022, after Musk purchased Twitter, he announced he would not ban the ElonJet account.^[11] In December, a stalker followed Elon's 2-year-old son while he was traveling in a car; the stalker thought Musk was in the car.^[12] After the incident, the account was restricted and then blocked along with Sweeney's personal and other flight tracking accounts, as part of the December 2022 Twitter account suspensions.^[13] Later, shortly after the incident, accounts of several journalists were reinstated.^[14]

On December 22, 2022, Sweeney started the new @ElonJetNextDay Twitter account, which continues to track the flights of Elon Musk's private jets, but publishes flight location information on a 24-hour delay in compliance with Twitter's new rules that "sharing publicly available location information after a reasonable time has elapsed, so that the individual is no longer at risk for physical harm" is not a violation.^[15]