Twitter Holds Online Auction , for Excess Office Supplies.
NPR reports that Twitter has announced a time-limited
auction of "surplus corporate office assets" from
the company's San Francisco headquarters.
The 27-hour online sale reportedly gives bidders
the opportunity to take home a piece
of the struggling social media platform.
The de facto fire sale will be
handled by the Global Heritage
Partners auction house. .
Over 630 lots are for sale, including projectors,
white boards, kitchen equipment, a wide variety of chairs
and couches and miscellaneous workplace staples.
Twitter-specific items include a six-foot-tall
"@"-shaped planter sculpture and a blue neon sign of the company's logo with a high bid of $22,500. .
Twitter-specific items include a six-foot-tall
"@"-shaped planter sculpture and a blue neon sign of the company's logo with a high bid of $22,500. .
Other high-ticket items include
a $10,000 pizza oven and a pair of stationary bikes
that double as recharging stations for $2,400.
Other high-ticket items include
a $10,000 pizza oven and a pair of stationary bikes
that double as recharging stations for $2,400.
NPR reports that the range of goods
comes as a jarring sight for the social
media platform's former employees.
Weird to see the Twitter office on auction.
Great memories from a different era, Kevin Weil, former Twitter senior
vice president of product, via Twitter.
Ross Dove, chief executive of Heritage Global,
reportedly estimated that the auction would
bring in around $1.5 million for Twitter.
The auction comes as the social media
platform has lost many major advertisers since
Elon Musk took the company over in October