Sutro Tower Twitter Account Gives Locals Taste of the ‘Best View in the Bay Area’
Written by Christina CampodonicoPublished Oct. 30, 2022 • 2:29pm
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Sutro Tower emerges from a low layer of fog in San Francisco on Sept. 28, 2012. | Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
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 to an iconic landmark. More recently, it’s been the inspiration for a number of Karl/a the Fog-type Twitter accounts.
The latest such account to enter fraught Twitterverse is @SutroTower. Launching in August, the account has posted numerous glamor shots of its namesake with cheeky captions and friendly morning greetings to San Francisco all while amassing a small but influential following of local Twitter personalities. 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 Sutro Tower, Inc.) insists that “there is nothing to fear about me.”
Christina Campodonico can be reached at christina@sfstandard.com
