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Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet
Twitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, one of the most popular destinations for people seeking a Twitter-like alternative. If you visit @joinmastodon’s profile, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended.
We don’t know exactly why the account was banned, but it may not have been done entirely out of spite for a rival platform. Instead, it could have been because Mastodon tweeted about @ElonJet.
The Mastodon suspension happened sometime on Thursday. The Wayback Machine has an archive of the active profile from 12:39PM ET, but an archive from 6:12PM ET shows the suspended page. On the archive of the active profile, there’s a tweet pointing to @ElonJet’s Mastodon account.
On Wednesday, Twitter s…
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Daily Crunch: Twitter backpedals on CEO’s promise, permanently bans user who tracked his private jet
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Daily Crunch: Twitter backpedals on CEO’s promise, permanently bans user who tracked his private jet by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter suspends account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet
RIP @ElonJet…at least for now.
Twitter has suspended the popular bot account @ElonJet, which tracked the movement of Elon Musk’s private jet. The account was created by Jack Sweeney, a freshman at the University of Central Florida.
Credit: Mashable Screenshot
The @ElonJet account would simply share data that’s made publicly available by the Federal Aviation Administration. Sweeney runs automated Twitter accounts that track the whereabouts of various celebrities and CEOs, such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Those accounts have not been suspended by Twitter.
Elon Musk has voiced his disdain for the @ElonJet account for a while. Back in January, well before he even signaled he was interested in acquiring Twitter, Musk reached out to Sweeney in hopes of getting the account removed. Musk offered the college freshman $5,000 to take down the account. Sweeney declined but came back with a counter offer of $50,000 or a new Tesla. According to Sweeney, Musk said he’d consider it but never responded again after that.
Then in October, Musk acquired Twitter.
“My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk,” Musk tweeted on Nov. 6.
It seemed like that could’ve possibly been the case, at least for a little while. Then, on Dec. 10, Sweeney posted a message he said he received from an anonymous Twitter employee.
“On “Dec 2 2022 your account @elonjet was visibility limited/restricted to a severe degree internally,” Sweeney quoted the Twitter employee as saying.
Sweeney then included a screenshot of an internet Twitter message from its new VP at Twitter Trust and Safety, Ella Irwin, requesting that the team “please apply heavy VF to @elonjet immediately”
After posting these leaked messages, Sweeney shared that the restrictions on his account seemed to be removed, citing a public Twitter tool that checks for various levels of shadowbanning and account filtering.
By Wednesday morning, however, @ElonJet was suspended.
It’s unclear why @ElonJet was suspended. Sweeney confirmed the account’s suspension and posted a screenshot of the “permanent suspension” prompt he sees on the account.
Mashable would reach out to Twitter for comment, but the company no longer has a comms team since Musk laid off seemingly everyone in the department.
Elon Musk has voiced his support for “free speech” as the reason he acquired Twitter, and said he would moderate the website with those principles in mind. It’s a bit hard to claim that, and also suspend an account that shared data made publicly available by a government agency.
Despite Elon Musk promising not to ban it, the Twitter account following his jet has been permanently suspended
Boom finds a new design partner for its Symphony supersonic jet engine
Boom has revealed more details about Symphony, the engine for the Overture jet with which it aims to bring back commercial supersonic air travel after the retirement of Concorde. Most importantly, the company has secured a new partner to develop the engine after it parted ways with Rolls-Royce in September.
FTT, a division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, will help design Symphony. Some of FTT’s engineers were behind the F-22 and F-35 fighter jet engines, so they have experience in powering supersonic aircraft.
Symphony is a medium-bypass turbofan engine that will have the same basic architecture as current commercial aircraft engines. However, Boom says its new propulsion system is designed to help Symphony achieve 35,000 pounds of thrust and speeds of Mach 1.7. Boom claims that Overture will be able to fly between Newark and London in under four hours and San Francisco to Tokyo in around six hours.
Boom expects Symphony to deliver a 25 percent increase in time on wing (i.e. in-flight time) and claims it will have significantly lower maintenance costs than other engines. The engine will be the first that’s optimized for fully sustainable aviation fuel, Boom says, and it will operate at net zero carbon. Symphony will also have a single-stage fan that’s designed for quiet operation.
Despite the switch in engine partners, Boom says the jet is still on track for certification in 2029. Production is set to start in 2024 at a factory in North Carolina with the first jet scheduled to leave the factory in 2026. Boom now expects test flights to start in 2027, a year later than previously planned.
The company already has customers lined up. American Airlines placed an order earlier this year for 20 jets, with an option for another 40. United Airlines, meanwhile, has ordered 15 Overture planes with an option for another 35.