From Furniture, Apple Macs To Coffee Machines, Twitter Is Auctioning Off Office Items At HQ

Fancy an espresso machine once used by Twitter employees? Or a neon display of its logo? Or the furniture and electronics? Well, you now have a chance to get your hands on them in a fire sale of items from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters that started on Tuesday.

This auction comes amid Twitter's revenue going down 40% year-over-year and its owner Elon Musk's first giant interest payment on the company being due at the end of January. More than 500 of Twitter's advertisers have paused spending on the micro-blogging site since Elon Musk's takeover last year, as per Reuters.

Details Of The Auction

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The 27-hour online auction, organized by Heritage Global Partners Inc., is the latest sign of upheaval at the company, which the world's second richest person and billionaire Elon Musk acquired for a mammoth $44 billion last year, as per a Bloomberg report.

Wild to see the Twitter office on auction. Board room tables, phone booths, chairs, monitors... even the Twitter bird statue. Great memories from a different era. https://t.co/kLOx69ZbeI pic.twitter.com/BFfvFy6Pg4

¡ª Kevin Weil ?? (@kevinweil) January 15, 2023

Twitter has started to auction off quirky office items after laying off thousands of employees. Some of the fancy items on the list are quirky bird memorabilia (Twitter's bird logo), Apple Macs, espresso machines, and refrigerators. The auction is hosted by Heritage Global Partners and the company has revealed that there are 631 items that participants can buy. Most of these items are from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters.

People can bid till 11:30 PM IST (Indian Standard Time) tonight, January 18th.

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Bids For Items Getting Auctioned

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The items which are kept for the auction have a bizarre price range which includes Twitter Bird Statue for $20,000 (roughly Rs 16 lakh). The bird is considered one of the highest bids. On the other hand, the current bid for Twitter's "@" sculpture planter is at $8,000, which is roughly Rs 6.53 lakh, as per ET.

Twitter's most premium wooden chairs which were earlier used by Twitter employees and guests are selling at over $1,000 (Rs 81,000). Interestingly, even small things such as N95 masks are also on a bid for the auction. The cost of a total of 20,800 units of KN95 protective masks is priced at $350. (roughly Rs 28,000).

Other products include espresso machines worth $3,400 (approximately Rs 2.77 lakh). Some other items include vegetable dryers and kitchen tables made of stainless steel. As previously said, the prices will probably rise until the bid closes tonight.

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