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Student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet on Twitter now targeting Russian oligarchs

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Elon Musk's private jet through a Twitter account has now set his sights on tracking Russian oligarchs.University of Central Florida freshman student Jack Sweeney set up a new Twitter account called @RUOligarchJets which he claims can track the movements of various aircrafts owned by Russian billionaires.The teen says the bots detect air traffic data and track them through the social media app.

Sweeney, who says he knew very little about Russian billionaires or their planes, started the account after he received several requests to track the aircrafts of Russian oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking to Bloomberg, he said: "Before this, I didn't even know there were these influential oligarchs like this. They probably do have a decent amount of power from what I can understand."The aircrafts these oligarchs have are absolutely crazy.

Their planes are huge compared to other jets."Tracked jets include those owned by Russia's richest resident, Vladimir Potanin, as well as Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich and steel billionaire Alexander Abramov.Sweeney's account currently tracks 39 planes and helicopters belonging to 19 different oligarchs.Sweeney said: "People have been asking me about Putin for a while, they wanted to know if they could track him."It's just been crazy.

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