Musk's "X" is moving

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco to be closed down

Elon Musk's online platform X is moving out of the headquarters of its predecessor service Twitter in San Francisco, according to media reports. X boss Linda Yaccarino announced the building's closure in an email to employees, wrote the financial service 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 headquarters would be relocated to Austin, Texas, was accompanied by a side blow against San Francisco, which is seen as being in decline, particularly in conservative political circles.

He had had enough of ducking away 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 his car and the building entrance in a courtyard.