Local Twitter boss insists it isn’t shutting in Australia

Despite reports this week that Twitter is ending its physical presence in Australia following a tumultuous end to 2022, local boss Angus Keene has insisted his team is carrying on.

According to industry sources, an email was sent by Keene to agency staff in response to an article earlier in the week by The Sydney Morning Herald, that reported Twitter is in the process of ending its “physical presence in Australia”.

In the article titled ‘Twitter begins to axe remaining Australian staff’, industry sources said that Twitter “had closed its local office”.

However, according to Twitter, staff are working from home in Australia after the company stopped leasing its Sydney CBD office.

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