Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk's personal jet on-line has a brand new aviation-themed goal: Russian oligarchs and billionaires.
The 19-year-old, who rejected Musk's $5,000 supply to delete his Twitter account, lately launched two new automated Twitter handles — @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet — following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The 2 profiles have amassed almost 300,000 followers mixed and supply almost dwell updates of the personal jets' actions together with footage of maps finding them.
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Sweeney advised the Wall Avenue Journal that individuals have lengthy been telling him to begin Twitter accounts like this, and people requests ramped up after sanctions took purpose at Russia's richest.
Russia's oligarchs face financial chaos at residence and punishment by the West after President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine. The US and its allies have responded by sanctioning rich people who're near the Kremlin.
A number of the jets tracked by the accounts embrace Chelsea Soccer Membership proprietor Roman Abramovich, businessman Alisher Usmanov and Leonid Mikhelson, the billionaire chairman of Russian fuel producer Novatek.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Sweeney mentioned he was shocked by the scale of planes the Russian oligarchs use.
"The aircrafts these oligarchs have are completely loopy," Sweeney mentioned. The nation's richest are travelling on commercial-sized aircrafts like an Airbus A319 and Boeing 737. "Their planes are big in comparison with different jets."
In whole, the accounts monitor greater than 40 planes and helicopters linked to Russian oligarchs. He has invited others to assist bolster the quantity of planes that may be tracked.
Sweeney's Twitter account monitoring Musk remains to be dwell. He advised Journal that he'd delete it solely in trade for a brand new Tesla Mannequin 3.