An auction for various objects coming directly from the headquarters of Twitter in San Francisco just ended.
And among the items sold, there is an XXL size replica of the firm’s emblematic blue bird, which was sold for the price of a luxury sedan.
An auction to breathe new life into Twitter
It could not have escaped you, last October, Elon Musk offered the social network Twitter, against the tidy sum of 44 billion dollars. Quickly, the American businessman laid off more than half of the company’s workforce, without forgetting to add various functionalities to the network, in addition to the launch of Twitter Blue.
In great financial difficulty in recent months, the Twitter network seems however to be regaining color at the start of 2023, with in particular various weighty partners who have signed content agreements with the platform. Added to this is a rather atypical auction, which ended very recently.
Items sold at outrageous prices
Thus, it is a somewhat special auction that was organized by Heritage Global Partners. Indeed, several hundred objects from Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco have been put up for sale. And if the organizer did not publicly reveal the final results of this sale, the BBC was able to view certain prices shortly before the end of the auction.
The centerpiece of this auction was undoubtedly a giant statue of the Twitter logo, a blue bird that fetched over $100,000. Among the items sold, there is also a planter in the shape of an “@” symbol, which found a buyer for more than $15,000. A large wooden table, from a conference room, was sold for more than 10,000 dollars.
Among the objects offered, there was also a La Marzocco espresso machine ($13,500), as well as Polycom speakers for videoconferencing. Chairs signed Herman Miller have also made buyers happy, at a unit price of 1,400 dollars… the new value being however set at 1,200 dollars.
Nick Dove, a representative of Heritage Global Partners, however, took care to specify to the magazine Fortune that this recent auction was in no way intended to recover the sum of 44 billion dollars invested by Elon Musk. We still hope that this will allow Twitter to finally settle its unpaid rents…
Source : BBC
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