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Twitter Account Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet Gets Suspended<!-- wp:html --><p>NTB/Reuters</p> <p>A <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/banned-twitter-users-plot-their-return-under-elon-musk">Twitter</a> account which tracked the movements of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-is-a-right-wing-culture-warrior-above-all-else">Elon Musk’s</a> private jet appears to have been suspended from the site. </p> <p>The automated account is no longer available on the platform after its owner, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-account-following-elon-musks-private-jet-gets-shadow-banned">Jack Sweeney</a>, said it had been shadow banned earlier this month. Over the weekend, Sweeney shared a Twitter thread in which he said a Twitter employee told him that on Dec 2 his jet-tracking account had its “visibility limited/restricted to a severe degree internally.” </p> <p>On Monday, Sweeney followed up to say that it appeared the shadow ban had ended. “I think Twitter noticed my tweets and back tracked. Guilty in my book,” Sweeney <a href="https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney/status/1602354433807061070?s=20&t=qtqmuyxYNdMAN72S0StajQ">tweeted</a> on Tuesday. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-account-tracking-elon-musks-private-jet-gets-suspended?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

NTB/Reuters

A Twitter account which tracked the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet appears to have been suspended from the site.

The automated account is no longer available on the platform after its owner, Jack Sweeney, said it had been shadow banned earlier this month. Over the weekend, Sweeney shared a Twitter thread in which he said a Twitter employee told him that on Dec 2 his jet-tracking account had its “visibility limited/restricted to a severe degree internally.”

On Monday, Sweeney followed up to say that it appeared the shadow ban had ended. “I think Twitter noticed my tweets and back tracked. Guilty in my book,” Sweeney tweeted on Tuesday.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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