One of Twitter's landlords in San Francisco is suing the social media platform for failing to pay its rent since Elon Musk bought the company in October.
In a lawsuit filed last week by Columbia Property Trust, the company said Twitter owes $136,200 in rent for its offices in the Hartford Building at 650 California Street.
According to the NY Times, which broke the story early last month that Twitter had stopped paying landlords in San Francisco and its other global offices in an effort by Musk to force them to renegotiate office lease deals, Twitter last week closed its Seattle offices after laying off janitorial and security services at its offices in San Francisco, New York and Seattle.
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