The Florida college student who garnered attention for tracking the private planes of Elon Musk and Russian oligarchs has a new Twitter target: the luxury yachts of Russia’s elite
Mr. Sweeney, a freshman at the University of Central Florida, started those two accounts on Feb. 26, two days after. His @RUOligarchJets account has amassed nearly 395,000 followers as of Sunday, while the bot tracking planes associated with Mr. Putin had over 102,000 followers.
For yachts, Mr. Sweeney relies on similar data that comes from onboard safety devices that transmit and monitor the locations of large vessels. “I’m not really sure what it would cost, because there’s different options,” he said. “I’m just doing it manually, for now, until I can automate it.”
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