SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old school pupil who was as soon as banned from Twitter for posting the real-time actions of Elon Musk’s jet, has a brand new plane in his sights: that of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

On Monday, Sweeney launched a brand new Twitter tracker utilizing the identify @DeSantisJet that follows the actions of the official Florida jet DeSantis makes use of for state enterprise. This tracker, just like the one he created to observe Musk’s personal jet, makes use of public flight data required by aviation authorities.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sweeney mentioned he additionally plans to trace DeSantis flights on different personal plane as soon as he can determine them.

Like Sweeney’s revamped model of his Musk tracker @elonjet, the DeSantis Twitter tracker studies actions with a 24-hour delay. That delay complies with a Twitter rule change imposed shortly after the corporate suspended Sweeney’s unique Musk monitoring account in December. Sweeney’s Twitter account was later restored.

Sweeney, who's a pupil on the University of Central Florida, tracks a wide range of different personal jets utilized by politicians, expertise tycoons and celebrities, an inventory that features former President Donald Trump; enterprise titans Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg; and celebrities Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.

Like different monitoring accounts, Sweeney’s DeSantis tracker seems on a wide range of social platforms starting from Facebook and Instagram to smaller websites corresponding to Telegram, Mastodon, and Nostr. His Musk tracker additionally makes use of accounts on BlueSky, a nascent Twitter different, and Truth, a Trump-founded social community.

Sweeney mentioned DeSantis is “just becoming someone that people want to know about.” The Florida Republican has lengthy given indicators of gearing as much as run for president within the 2024 election, the place he would deal with Trump and several other different introduced candidates.

The AP reported Tuesday that DeSantis plans to kick off his presidential marketing campaign in a Twitter Spaces chat with Musk on Wednesday, citing two individuals with information of the choice.

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