(Central News Agency) American college student Jack Sweeney (Jack Sweeney) became an Internet celebrity for creating a bot account on Twitter to track the private jet movements of billionaire Elon Musk (Elon Musk) and other celebrities, but Sweeney said today that he 's account has been suspended by Twitter.

Sweeney created a robot account @ElonJet on Twitter (Twitter) to track the private jet of electric car giant Tesla (Tesla) and the CEO of SpaceX (SpaceX), and share the takeoff and landing time, location and information of the plane. Each flight time attracts a large number of users to follow.

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In addition, Sweeney also operated more than 10 robot accounts used to track Bill.

The flight distances of tech bigwigs like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

However, Sweeney tweeted today: "The @ElonJet account has apparently been suspended." But he also attached a link to the tweet, encouraging users to follow him on other platforms.

In addition to Twitter, Sweeney also operates similar robot accounts tracking Musk's planes on other platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Telegram.

In November last year, Musk sent a message to Sweeney, asking him "can you close this account" and saying "this is a security risk."

In the end, Musk was willing to pay Sweeney US$5,000 (approximately NT$140,000) in exchange for closing the account that tracked his private jet so that no "crazy" could track his movements.

Sweeney alleged in an interview with the media that he rejected Musk.

"$5,000 is not enough to get what I get out of it. Money doesn't replace anything, like fun," he said.

Sweeney is only 20 years old and is currently studying at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

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