Bids Cross $21,000 for ‘Iconic’ Twitter Emblem Signal

• The Twitter brand signal that hung outdoors the corporate’s San Francisco headquarters is up for public sale.
• Bids surpassed $21,000 as of Monday night time.
• The vendor, RR Home, estimates the signal’s worth at upwards of $40,000.

Twitter’s blue chicken brand signal — which previously hung outdoors the corporate’s headquarters in San Francisco — is up for public sale for the second time.

The present vendor, RR Public sale, obtained the register Elon Musk’s 2023 public sale of Twitter memorabilia. Musk bought off a slew of artifacts related to Twitter — together with a espresso desk and beer faucet — after his takeover of the corporate in 2022. Some objects, like a Twitter-themed statue, bought for hundreds.

The chicken brand, nicknamed “Larry” after Celtics participant Larry Fowl, was synonymous with Twitter till Musk’s rebranding of the social-media platform to X in 2023.

Musk’s efforts to take down Twitter’s outdated signage in 2023 made headlines after police confirmed up and briefly halted the work. The rebranding additionally included adjustments to the within of the corporate headquarters, like changing the blue birds with black partitions and X-themed convention rooms. Musk has additionally moved X’s headquarters from San Francisco to Texas.

“Though Twitter and its mild blue chicken have since retired, the image stays an icon of tech and social media historical past, an immediately recognizable emblem in the identical league as Nike or Apple Pc,” RR Public sale stated within the itemizing.

The public sale home estimates the signal’s worth at upward of $40,000. Eleven bids had already been positioned as of Monday night, driving the present worth as much as $21,664.

The chicken is on sale as half of a bigger public sale dubbed “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution” that opened on February 27. Potential consumers have solely a pair extra days to bid earlier than its finish date of March 20.

Different objects up for public sale embody Apple checks from the Nineteen Seventies that have been signed by Steve Jobs — with one bidding at over $89,000 — and a purposeful Apple I pc bidding at greater than $205,000.

Whoever wins the chicken brand can be chargeable for paying to ship the hulking signage — which clocks in at roughly 560 kilos — from its present house in San Francisco storage to its closing vacation spot.

Enterprise Insider reached out to RR Public sale for remark.