The 560-pound Twitter brand has bought for $34,000

Twitter might be dead, however the 12-foot tall fowl brand from its San Francisco headquarters will reside on. The signal — one in every of two birds that previously adorned Twitter’s workplace — has been bought at public sale for $34,375.

That's a bit lower than $40,000 auctioneers RR Home estimated it might fetch, however is nonetheless an expensive piece of social media historical past. The huge brand that marked the corporate’s headquarters on San Francisco's Market Avenue is undoubtedly probably the most iconic symbols related to the social media firm. (The signal was unceremoniously eliminated after Musk’s rebranding of the corporate to X.)

The unknown purchaser may also chargeable for prices to maneuver the signal from the San Francisco storage facility the place it’s at the moment situated. That alone can be no small feat. The signal is 145˝ x 105˝ (roughly 12 toes by 8 toes) and weighs in at 560 kilos, in line with the itemizing. A YouTube video accompanying the itemizing reveals that it took a crane and a crew of a number of staff to take away the signal from the constructing.

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Precisely the place "Larry" will find yourself subsequent isn't clear because the profitable bidder's identification hasn't been disclosed, however the 12-foot tall signal is certain to make fairly a press release, wherever it lands.

Notably, this isn’t the primary time “Larry” (the nickname former Tweeps gave to the positioning’s iconic fowl brand) hit the public sale block. Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in 2022, a lot of the contents of Twitter’s former places of work have been auctioned off in 2023. Different, barely smaller variations of the emblem proved to be fashionable on the time, with one statue that embellished the workplace promoting for $100,000. The constructing’s different massive fowl brand was auctioned off in that sale for an undisclosed price.

Replace, March 21, 2025, 1:47 PM ET: Now that the public sale has closed, this story has been up to date so as to add details about the profitable bid.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-560-pound-twitter-logo-has-sold-for-34000-180326846.html?src=rss

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