'ElonJet', Tracking Musk's Private Jet, Appears on Threads

Reappears 7 Months After Twitter Account Suspension
Tracking Musk's Private Jet to Provide Real-Time Updates

A bot account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet in real time has been launched on 'Threads,' a new social media (SNS) platform by Meta, the parent company of Facebook. This comes seven months after being permanently banned from Twitter in December last year.

According to foreign media reports on the 8th (local time), Jack Sweeney, who operated the 'ElonJet' account on Twitter, announced the opening of the Threads account on the 7th. The Threads account was named 'ElonMuskJet.'

The ElonJet account used publicly available flight route information on the internet to track Musk's private jet routes, providing real-time updates on the plane's takeoff and landing times, locations, travel duration, and other details.

At the time, ElonJet had about 500,000 followers on Twitter. However, the account was permanently suspended in December last year after Musk acquired Twitter, and Sweeney's personal account was also suspended.

Musk warned that he would take legal action against the account operator, saying, "My son was followed by a crazy stalker."

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The new ElonMuskJet Threads account currently has 21,000 followers. Meanwhile, the first account to surpass one million followers on Threads is American famous YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson's 'MrBeast.' He is the individual YouTuber with the most subscribers worldwide.

According to the Guinness World Records, Donaldson, who opened his account on the 6th, surpassed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to become the first to exceed one million followers on Threads. He currently has 3 million followers, the most on Threads. Zuckerberg was the second to surpass one million followers, following MrBeast.

Earlier, Microsoft (MS) co-founder Bill Gates and famous broadcaster Oprah Winfrey also joined Threads, and U.S. federal lawmakers and White House officials have been opening accounts one after another.

Threads is a text-based SNS targeting Twitter. Threads was built based on Meta's popular platform Instagram. It is easy to log in with just an Instagram account.

CEO Zuckerberg stated on his Threads account on the 7th, "As of this morning, 70 million people have joined Threads," adding, "This far exceeds our expectations." This number is about one-third of Twitter's 237.8 million users as of July last year and was achieved just a day and a half after its launch on the afternoon of the 5th.

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