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

Twitter’s blue bird on its former headquarters in San Francisco (Godofredo A Vasquez/AP)

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.