Twitter bird sign sells for more than £27,000 at auction

Twitter’s famous bird logo that was removed from the company’s former San Francisco headquarters when Elon Musk took over the social media company and rebranded it to X has sold for nearly 35,000 dollars (£27,132) at auction.

RR Auction, which deals in “rare and collectible items” said the 560-pound (254kg) sign, which measured 12 feet by nine feet (3.7 metres by 2.7 metres) sold for 34,375 dollars. It did not name the buyer.

Mr Musk had previously auctioned off other items from the former Twitter, ranging from signs and memorabilia to more mundane items such as kitchen equipment and office furniture.

Other tech history items that fetched sizable sums in the auction included an Apple-1 computer with accessories which sold for 375,000 dollars (£290,700), an Apple Computer Co check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976 for 112,054 dollars (£86,864) and a first-generation 4GB iPhone, sealed in its package, for 87,514 dollars (£67,840).