Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads

www.reuters.com Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads

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.

Technology @lemmy.world Some_Emo_Chick @lemmy.world 1y ago

www.reuters.com /technology/suspended-twitter-account-tracking-elon-musks-jet-moves-rival-metas-threads-2023-07-08/

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You can also find it on Mastodon, @elonjet@mastodon.social
- Relative Lemmy link /u/elonjet@mastodon.social.
  
  I guess Lemmy doesn't show users mastodon posts? :)
  
  I think ActivityPub states that you must follow a user for their posts to federate, but Lemmy currently doesn't give a way to follow users only communities, so it will probably eventually work
  
  (I think technically communities are fake users that retweet/boost the posts to them?)
  
  You can follow Lemmy posts/communities from Mastodon, but not the other way round as of now.
  
  Awesome, thank you!
  
  I didn't see any content when I tried it before posting, so I figured to just leave it out. You're right, though. Hopefully, as Lemmy evolves, we'll have a way to follow or "subscribe to" Mastodon users like we do communities.
  
  You can browse directly from kbin:
  https://kbin.social/u/@elonjet@mastodon.social/posts
- Didn't know that. Thanks lol
I guarantee you if he puts a Zuckerberg tracker on Twitter, Elon won't say shit about that one.
- Are you implying he's not actually a free speech absolutist and only said so for clout from his cult of worshipers?
  
  The Elongated Muskrat would never say anything just for clout, obviously OP just doesn't understand or appreciate his genius!
  
  /S in case it wasn't obvious.
Is it back? Few days ago it was reported being removed: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787101/the-elon-musk-private-jet-tracker-was-on-threads-but-not-anymore
- It's on mastodon. It's not the biggest issue if Meta removed it.
- Just checked, it's active on threads if you search "elonjet"
But not Mastodon?
You love to see it 🛬
I hate Elon but can someone ELI5 why we really need his live coordinates and not just 24h delayed ones?
- It's how plane tracking works, all flights are tracked in real time. Once the one he's on has been pointed out you can track it on various apps and services.
  
  My question is why we need it?
- We don't need it. It annoys Elon, which makes it hilarious.
  
  If Elon just ignored it, and wasn't a crybaby, then nobody would care about Elonjet.
How exactly does this work within TOS I thought threads like most meta products lacks an official api
- It doesn't seem to be automated
- He may be doing it manually, it wouldn't be the first time. When he first got banned from twitter and started publishing on Mastodon he was doing all the updates by hand for a while.
  
  Long term there are ways and means that it could be done via the html front end, it would probably take a little bit more monitoring but there seem to be plenty of people willing to help him!
See? Not everyone on social media is a bigot. Some of us hate rich people as much as you do, or at least as much as you would if you knew how shitty you have to be to people to become a billionaire.

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