Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for an astronomical $44 billion, continues to baffle everyone with the things he does on the platform. Although the businessman, who laid off thousands of employees, said he defended free speech, he had been following his private jet lately. ElonJet His account was banned for not following Twitter rules.

Although he said he would not close the account, Musk, who made such a move, Jack Sweeney He was widely criticized for closing a student’s account by name. Today, an important development has taken place in this area and the account has been transferred to the platform. is back.

ElonJet returns to Twitter as ‘ElonJet but delayed’

Jack Sweeney, 20, has returned to Twitter under the username @ElonJetNextDay. The new name means ‘ElonJet but delayed’. This is because Sweeney Musk’s jet post with a 24-hour delay to comply with Twitter’s rules. The young user, who has more than 30 accounts and follows many celebrities from billionaires to politicians, told Business Insider that he is manually checking his new account for now and that automatic sharing will come in the future. The previously deleted ElonJet account automatically posted about Musk’s plane.

Twitter updated its policy immediately after the ElonJet account was closed to share people’s real-time location on the same day. violation of the rule described it as. Musk also tweeted on December 15, a day after the ban, that posting locations too late is not a security risk.

When viewed on Twitter’s updated page on the subject, it was clearly stated that sharing the location was not prohibited for a while: “It is not a violation of the rule to share public location information after a reasonable period of time to eliminate the risk of bodily harm to the person.” Let’s add that commercial and private planes are equipped with technology that includes information such as location and altitude. This information is kept public to prevent aircraft from colliding with each other in the air.

This policy, which was implemented, allowed ElonJet to return to Twitter on the condition that it share information about the plane’s location a day later. Sweeney, who has tweeted from the account so far, also shared data on topics such as flight and fuel information, carbon emissions and the location of the jet.

Elon Musk recently suspended the accounts of journalists who criticized him on the subject, with the exception of ElonJet. The billionaire, who even received a backlash from the European Union and the United Nations for banning journalists, backed out after a poll he conducted on Dec. 18 and reactivated the accounts.