By Aaron Miller-
Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has irresponsibly encouraged the asked the college student who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet to keep posting on rival apps Bluesky and Nostr.
Following his rich takeover of twitter last year, Musk banned accounts that share public information and threatened to sue a 20-year-old college student for posting his publicly-available flight information on the platform.
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Included in Musk’s new policies, were bans on “live location information, including information shared to Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available”.
The prohibition was designed to protect the relative privacy of individuals, even if their private information was publicly available to some. Underlying the ban was the idea that it is wrong to to spread private information about an individual’s location, given the potential risk it poses the more people know an individual’s whereabouts.
Dorsey’s irresponsible encouragement is believed to be borne out of spite for Musk following the numerous sackings of twitter employees when he took over the social media giant last year.
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The billionaire’s sacking of former twitter employees caused a storm, but the new boss who frequently ran polls in pursuit of representing public opinion, stuck to his guns with the firings.
Musk was criticised for some of his rash decisions, particularly the restoration of Trump’s account, whom many would have preferred to see permanently locked out of twitter after years of toxicity and attacks on the platform.
However, many credited Musk for seemingly becoming a champion of free speech, while critics of the twitter’s new boss pointed to his ill judgement.
Bluesky, a Twitter-like app that is currently invite-only has more than 60,000 users, Insider previously reported, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Twitter comedy account Dril. The project originally started at Twitter while Dorsey served as CEO, but was spun out and is now run by Jay Graber.
“What’s ur take on ElonJet?” the college student asked Dorsey.
“Keep on keepin on,” Dorsey responded, adding: “Send updates here and to nostr.
When setting up his account, someone had already claimed the username @elonjet, so Sweeney asked the person if they could hand it over – and they did. “I wanted it in good hands,” the owner told Sweeney.
He also followed Dorsey’s advice and joined Nostr on Saturday.
Nostr, which stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays, is an open protocol that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. Dorsey tweeted in December last year that he had donated just over a quarter million dollars in Bitcoin to its anonymous founder, @fiatjaf.
Sweeney created the original @ElonJet account in 2020, using public flight data to monitor the whereabouts the of billionaire’s private jet. He shot to fame when Musk offered him $5,000 to take down his Twitter account in January 2022.
The billionaire called the account a “security risk” and said he didn’t want to be “shot by a nutcase.” The student asked for $50,000 – but it never materialized
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When Musk acquired Twitter in October last year, Sweeney feared his account, @elonjet, would be banned. Musk said in November that he wouldn’t remove the account.
However, in December, Sweeney’s more than 30 accounts tracking celebrities’ jets, including those of Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, and Kim Kardashian, were all suspended. He subsequently set up shop elsewhere, including Instagram, Discord, and Mastodon. He told Insider on Saturday, however, that Mastodon wasn’t as enticing as Twitter or Bluesky.
About a week after the permanent ban, Sweeney set up a new Twitter account that had the same purpose as @elonjet, only it would be posting with a 24-hour delay to follow Twitter’s new guidelines.
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