Twitter Holds Online Auction for Excess Office Supplies
Twitter Holds Online Auction for Excess Office Supplies
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.
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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.
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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.
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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