July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>

“ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” read Sweeney’s first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning.>

ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet using data available in the public domain.>

In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account’s operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a “crazy stalker”.>

Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including prominent figures such as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as it seeks to take advantage of its rival’s weakened state after a series of chaotic decisions from Musk.>

Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.> Reporting by Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama>

  • zabil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    If there is anything that’s good about threads; it’s what it’s doing to Musk and Twitter.

    Having said that it’s not a place I’m ever planning on venturing into.

    • TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat. I didn’t think I’d end up caring about Threads much, especially since it didn’t even launch where I live.

      But seeing how much Musk hates it has been pretty funny.

      • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Musk is pretty noble, he spent 42 billion of his own money to help accelerate twitters downfall and create a competitor.

        • TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          He’s certainly done me a favour. I wasn’t really in to Twitter but hadn’t heard of Mastodon until the 3rd app dust up.

          Turns out Mastodon is very much my speed. I’m glad he decided to blow up Twitter.

    • Weezard@feddit.ukEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, Threads doesn’t even need to be federated either really, it’s just an excuse, I like that they are sticking it to Musk, that nob head needs his comeuppance.

        • Weezard@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Haha, yeah I guess when I read it back it does sound like that m, what I meant was the Zuck wants threads federated to scrape data, get more information on people etc, which is just plain shitty, I’m a recent Fediverse joiner, and seeing it being targeted already to me does not being happy feelings :)