Jack Sweeney, 19, is tweeting the live location of planes owned by Russian oligarchs as well as planes linked to Putin via new Twitter bot accounts, namely @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet.
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- Jack Sweeney became famous for tracking down Elon Musk’s private jets.
- He is now tracking jets belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Sweeney is also tracking private jets of Russian oligarchs.
Jack Sweeney rose to fame after his unusual hobby of tracking the private jets of Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk. Now he has a new passion. Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sweeney has begun publishing the movements of planes linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The 19-year-old Florida teenager has been tweeting the live location of planes owned by Russian oligarchs as well as planes linked to Putin. He has created new Twitter bot accounts @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet, through which he often tells people where the private planes of Russian billionaires and presidents are.
At a time when Russia-related activities must be kept secret so as not to attract undue attention, Sweeney is happily serving her fans who recently asked her to track down Putin. “Oh, you should track down Putin,” he quoted his fans as speaking in an interview. He said he received requests to track down Putin even before the war started, but as Russia began attacking Ukraine, the number of requests from his online followers increased. The requests now also urge them to monitor the movements of Russian oligarchs and private aircraft owned by the nobility.
The new Twitter bot created by Sweeney uses the same technology that tracks jets Sweeney believes belongs to Elon Musk. Musk contacted Sweeney on Twitter asking him to stop tracking his plane’s movements via the famous Twitter bot account @ElonJet. Sweeney’s plane-tracking bot uses public data from plane transponders that keep track of planes’ longitude, latitude and altitude to calculate their location based on an algorithm they developed in 2020.
In a short period of time, the new Twitter bots focused on the Russian president and elite have already collectively garnered over 200,000 followers. One of his bots follows Roman Abramovich, the elite owner of Chelsea Football Club, Leonid Mikhelson, who heads Russia’s largest private natural gas company Novatek, and Alisher Usmanov, often referred to as Russia’s richest man. .
In addition to tracking the Russian president and oligarchs, Sweeney has invited amateurs like him from various countries to help him track down aircraft responders’ data using the tail numbers registered through his Twitter account, Which is meant to keep track of the jets of the Russian elite. While Sweeney has no desire to gain anything from the accounts that track Russian President Putin and the oligarchs, he did mention in interviews that he would stop tracking Elon Musk when he bought them a new Tesla Model 3. Will send