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Terminally-online denizens of Twitter might want to start tracking @elonjet the way the account itself tracks the private aircraft belonging to Elon Musk, as its status shifted several times over the course of a few heady hours on Wednesday. As of 8:30 p.m. EST, the account was suspended—but only after it was reinstated for roughly an hour, in a reversal from an initial ban that was enacted earlier in the day.
“So this morning, I am pretty surprised,” Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old college student who runs @elonjet, previously told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
The ultimate mystery, of course, remains exactly how much real estate the account is taking up in Musk’s head, with the billionaire having said weeks ago that his “commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk.” (The account uses publicly available information.)