Elon Musk’s latest Twitter move could end a beloved college football tradition
Dec 16, 2022
College football fans who populate the many active message boards and social media communities are well aware of the various flight trackers, which use publicly-available FAA data to show all of the planes—commercial and private—making their way across the country. When a school is conducting a coaching search, fans will obsess over finding which planes are coming and going from airports near their schools, looking for clues as to which coaches may be in the mix.
That could be coming to an end on one major platform: Twitter. On Thursday, the website abruptly changed its rules to ban links to or information from websites that track flights, as part of what Musk has called new “anti-doxxing rules.” With the decision, one notable account—Elon Jet, which tracked and tweeted Musk’s private jet—was suspended, along with
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