Chinanews.com, January 19th, according to comprehensive foreign media reports, on the 18th local time, billionaire Musk’s online auction of the assets of the Twitter headquarters came to an end. Among them, the statue of the Twitter logo "Little Blue Bird" was sold for $100,000.
California auction service Heritage Global Partners (HGP) confirmed that one of the 10-foot-tall Twitter bird logo neon signs sold for $40,000 more than 24 hours after an online auction of "surplus assets from Twitter's offices," AFP reported. shot out.
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It is reported that among the 631 items auctioned by Twitter, espresso machines, ergonomic desks, TVs, bicycle charging stations, pizza ovens and a decorative flower pot shaped like the "@" sign are also included.
All items have opening bids between $25 and $50.
Musk said in December 2022 that when he set out to find a new CEO for the troubled Twitter, he also slashed costs and that the company's poor financial situation has improved.
Musk said at the time that without these cost-cutting changes, Twitter would lose $3 billion a year.
It is reported that after Musk acquired Twitter for US$44 billion, he took a series of cost-cutting measures, including laying off about half of its employees.
But HGP President Nick Dove said in an interview that the auction had nothing to do with Twitter's financial situation.