People are now attempting to sell their iPhones with the original Twitter app logo installed for $7,000 on eBay

People are now attempting to sell their iPhones with the original Twitter app logo installed for $7K on eBay.

People are selling iPhones with old Twitter branding for up to $25,000

Twitter has been rebranded to X and the friendly bird logo has been replaced by the letter ‘X.’ At its core, the platform works largely the same as Jack Dorsey’s Twitter though it may evolve into a super app at some point in the future. Many people are bitter about the name and logo change and some iPhone owners believe they can make some money off of these sentiments.

As Supercharged notes, some iPhone users who have not updated their Twitter app and still have the old logo and name are selling their phones on resale sites and social media platforms. Notable among the listings is an eBay post that is offering an iPhone 11 Pro Max with an old version of the Twitter app with the old branding for a jaw-dropping $25,000.

Several Apple devices with the old Twitter app logo have been listed between $800 to $1,000, which are pretty decent, but some sellers are asking for substantially more. At the most extreme, we saw another going for $25k—props to anyone for having that kind of spare change lying around. That listing for an unlocked Twitter icon iPhone 11 Pro Max has since been taken down due to an error in the listing, however, it wasn’t the only 5-figure ask. An iPhone 13 with original Twitter logo is currently flaunting a $15k “Buy It Now” option on top of its $10k starting bid.

On the flipside, Android devices with either of these older apps on eBay are harder to come by—not because of rarity, but because it would be a harder sell. This is due in part to Android allowing users to easily sideload older APKs (Android Application Packages) if they want to opt out of latest app updates. While you can sideload apps on iOS devices, it requires significantly more legwork to make it happen.

As a tip to any would-be buyers or sellers, make sure to keep the device in airplane mode, disconnected from any networks, and disable app auto-updates. It may not allow you to actually use the Twitter app, but you wouldn’t want an over-the-air update spoiling your precious investment, would you?

Whether there will be any takers is a whole other story but it’s not unheard of for people to pay exorbitantly high amounts for items considered rare or collectible. Just this month, the first-generation iPhone, which came out in 2007, was sold for $190,372.80, 30 times its retail price. Another unit sold for $63,000 at an online auction earlier this year. 

In 2020, people were selling iPhones with the Fortnite game for up to $10K after it was removed from the App Store by Apple and there were no hopes of it coming back. Similarly, phones with the game Flappy Bird were being offered for up to $5,000 on eBay after the developer removed it from Apple and Google’s app stores.