SAN FRANCISCO (awp international) – According to media reports, Elon Musk’s online platform X is moving out of the headquarters of its predecessor service Twitter in San Francisco. X boss Linda Yaccarino announced the abandonment of the building in an email to employees, wrote the news agency Bloomberg, among others. There was no reaction from X to the reports.
The employees are to move to offices in Silicon Valley – to Palo Alto and San Jose. Musk bought the short message service Twitter in October 2022 for around 44 billion dollars and later renamed it X. The platform remained in the Twitter building on Market Street. Twitter was launched in San Francisco in 2006.
Musk’s announcement in July that the company would move its headquarters to Austin, Texas, was a dig at San Francisco, which is seen as being in decline, especially in conservative political circles.
He had had enough of ducking from “gangs of violent drug addicts” just to get into the building, Musk wrote on X. The tech billionaire is always accompanied by several bodyguards and only had to walk a few meters between the car and the building entrance in a courtyard.
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