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

Twitter could be dead, however the 12-foot tall chook brand from its San Francisco headquarters will dwell on. The signal — one in all two birds that previously adorned Twitter’s workplace — has been offered at public sale for $34,375.

That's a bit lower than $40,000 auctioneers RR Home estimated it will fetch, however is nonetheless an expensive piece of social media historical past. The large brand that marked the corporate’s headquarters on San Francisco's Market Avenue is undoubtedly one of the crucial 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 even answerable for prices to maneuver the signal from the San Francisco storage facility the place it’s at present positioned. 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 response to the itemizing. A YouTube video accompanying the itemizing exhibits that it took a crane and a staff 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 successful bidder's identification hasn't been disclosed, however the 12-foot tall signal is certain to make fairly an announcement, wherever it lands.

Notably, this isn’t the primary time “Larry” (the nickname former Tweeps gave to the positioning’s iconic chook brand) hit the public sale block. Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in 2022, a lot of the contents of Twitter’s former workplaces had been auctioned off in 2023. Different, barely smaller variations of the emblem proved to be widespread on the time, with one statue that adorned the workplace promoting for $100,000. The constructing’s different giant chook 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 successful bid.

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