Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore
The auction will presumably raise enough cash to help Musk service the $13 billion of debt he took on to acquire the micro-blogging service. Servicing that debt looks to have been made harder by advertisers shunning the service after the Chief Twit's decision to restore accounts of users that previous management barred for contravening the platform's terms of service.
Musk has suggested subscription services will help to raise revenue, and has articulated a plan to turn Twitter into a"Superapp" that would presumably produce cash in other ways. To date, however, Twitter has only added features, and botched the launch of its first subscription service.Would-be bidders need to register
, and be ready to bid on January 17 and 18. Lot winners need to retrieve their loot between Jan 23 and February 2.But don't let that deter you from bidding: your correspondent bid in the auction of IBM Australia's art collection and paid just $30 for a print of Thomas Watson Jr . It adorns my work-from-home space and is quite the conversation piece, even if it is not likely to be an asset my children fight over once I depart this plane of existence. ®
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