The day after it was introduced that Elon Musk was the brand new proprietor of Twitter , a person from Texas named Jim Schwertner posted a peculiar message on his profile: “Elon Musk, strikes Twitter to Schwertner, TX. 38 miles north of Austin, in Williamson County, and we’ll offer you 100 acres at no cost.”
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The city to which the person refers, and which bears his title, is an space of crops and land for cattle of greater than 20,000 hectares through which a number of ranches are situated. Cotton, corn, sorghum, rice and wheat are grown in that space of Texas and there may be sufficient house to create a campus for an organization like Twitter. The world is situated in Williamson County, about an hour from Austin, which for years has develop into one of many image cities of entrepreneurship within the United States.
Jim Schwertner is the manager director of Capitol Land & Livestock , an organization devoted to livestock farming since 1946. What Schwertner is clearly in search of together with his supply is to advertise the expansion of the area through which he lives, and though Elon Musk has not spoken to the tweet (through which it isn’t tagged) the thought will not be so far-fetched if we analyze that three of Musk’s firms have a presence within the state of Texas: Tesla Motors has its headquarters in Austin; Area X has testing services within the city of Boca Chica; and The Boring Firm places of work are situated within the metropolis of Pflugerville.
In line with the positioning Austonia.com , Jim Schwertner declared that Musk is the most effective factor that has occurred to Texas and that the arrival of Twitter may set off financial exercise within the area: “We predict it is a good suggestion, particularly when Samsung involves Taylor . I imply, this space is exploding and we wish to be part of this explosive development.” In November of final yr, Samsung introduced an funding of $17 billion {dollars} to construct a microchip manufacturing facility within the metropolis of Taylor, additionally in Texas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott jumped on Schwertner’s supply, tweeting: “Texas man gives Elon Musk 100 acres of land for FREE to maneuver Twitter HQ. I am going to declare it a ‘Free Speech Zone.’ Possibly we are able to rename Twitter, Texas. Give it some thought. @Elon Musk.”
To this point Musk has not responded to the governor’s tweet both, however because the saying goes: asking doesn’t impoverish.
Twitter’s places of work are at present situated in San Francisco, California.
