Before the mad man known as Elon Musk took over one of the most popular social media site and renamed it X, it was called Twitter. In my house its still called Twitter.
That was in 2023 and that’s when Elon made the ridiculous decision to rename the site X. He had the giant bird icon on the San Fransisco building taken down and put in storage. Now it’s been sold at auction.
RR Auction, which deals in “rare and collectible items” said the 560-pound (254 kilogram) sign, which measured 12 feet by 9 feet (3.7 meters by 2.7 meters) sold for $34,375. It did not name the buyer.
That will most certainly be worth a lot more as some time passes and we all long for a world where things were less fascisty.
Other tech history items that fetched sizable sums in the auction included an Apple-1 computer with accessories sold for $375,000, an Apple Computer Co. check signed by Steve Jobs in 1976 for $112,054 and a first-generation 4GB iPhone, sealed in its package, for $87,514.