Sutro Tower has been an iconic and quirky part of SF’s skyline, for nearly 50 years. Since its rise in 1973, the 977-foot TV and radio broadcasting tower has played many parts. It’s grown from a hated eyesore (opens in new tab) to an iconic landmark. More recently, it’s been the inspiration for a number of Karl (opens in new tab)/a the Fog (opens in new tab)-type Twitter accounts.
The latest such account to enter fraught Twitterverse is @SutroTower (opens in new tab). Launching in August, the account has posted numerous glamor shots of its namesake with cheeky captions (opens in new tab) and friendly morning greetings to San Francisco (opens in new tab) all while amassing a small but influential following of local Twitter personalities (opens in new tab). In the lead-up to Halloween, @SutroTower has dressed up its Twitter with a ghost emoji and dubbed itself as “Haunted Sutro Tower.” But the tower, (which says is unaffiliated with S (opens in new tab)utro Tower, Inc. (opens in new tab)) insists that “there is nothing to fear about me.”