Musk dumps remaining Twitter-branded stuff in auction

Elon Musk is having another garage sale, this time dumping all of the leftover junk around X headquarters that belongs to the former Twitter brand.

The auction currently includes more than 600 items, including neon signs flashing the Twitter bird, a giant hashtag, and the @ icon. It also features branded furniture like a Twitter bird wooden coffee table and a bird cage hanging sofa swing.

Twitter fans feeling nostalgic amid Musk's rebrand of the social platform will have plenty of time to peruse the items. The auction is scheduled to start September 12 and run through September 14.

Like Twitter's last auction at the beginning of this year, this new auction is mostly just a bunch of office furniture and electronics that X seemingly has no use for anymore. It also includes the "Twitter Essentials" 24-record collection and record player, suggesting that tweeting little birds aren't the only things being silenced in the X offices.

It's hard to estimate how much X could get for this batch of items. During Twitter's last auction, the highest bid was $100,000 for a three-foot Twitter bird statue.

Among items in the current auction that could attract high bids are Twitter bird signs still hanging on the X building. There are two signs up for grabs, but the listings note that the birds are "still mounted on the side of the building." Buyers will be responsible, the listings say, for hiring a licensed San Francisco company with appropriate permits to remove the iconic signs.

Another particularly nostalgic item for longtime Twitter users is a painting of a selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars. That selfie, the Guardian reported, was at one point "the most retweeted message of all time."

:story: Ars Technica