Twitter Fail Whale

Twitter Fail Whale

The Twitter fail whale is a graphic that appears whenever Twitter.com is experiencing trouble, usually due to traffic spikes and technical problems.

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Now here’s an interesting fact, Yiying Lu who most people have never probably heard of, is the designer behind the “Fail Whale” on the mega tweet site that is Twitter, which is the picture of a whale being carried by a flock of birds that appears on screen every time the Twitter site crashes, which we hope is not too often! The design is now appearing on everything from T-Shirts to posters, key rings, tattoos and cocktails. She has been interviewed recently and has said she has only made a modest amount of money from this now increasingly famous design. With the way Twitter ... Read Full Story
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The Fail Whale ate your Twitter user icon for lunch and now it's too heavy to lift. (Credit: Twitter) Twitter has been hiccuping all day, it seems. Earlier, some users (myself included) noticed occurrences of the service's notorious "fail whale"--the cartoon that pops up when Twitter's servers are overloaded--and later, some members began to report that their profile pictures had disappeared and were replaced by Twitter's default icon. As they say at Fark , everybody panic! Well, not really. Twitter CEO Evan Williams acknowledged the issue, saying "if you're missing your icon/avatar, please excuse -- will be back shortly!" in a Twitter post . ... Read Full Story
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Twitter is stupid . Period. And they even have stupid "Fail Whale" fan clubs! But what is "Fail Whale"? The "Fail Whale" is this above graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com , which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as "tweets." When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the "Fail Whale" error message. The "Fail Whale" idea is so popular that there's even a Fail Whale Martini Drink named after it. "What is Fail Whale" link ... Read Full Story
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Fail Whale Ate My Balls, Celebrate Twitter Downtime With Style. - FAILparty 2, EconoFAIL, Featuring Fail Whale Creator Yiying Lu. - Twitter Fail Whale Makes Guest Appearance in Laugh-Out-Loud Cats ...  
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I’m not a Twitter addict – although I do have an account – so I might be wrong on this one, but will a device that only sends and receives tweets be worth buying? That’s what Peek is counting on as is launches the TwitterPeek. Much like their one-trick ponies Peek & Peek Pronto, which…  
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Filed under: Security Warning! There's a Twitter phish-fest going on at the moment. Hopefully you'll read this before you become an ill-fated Twit...! If you receive a DM that looks something like this: hi. this you on here? http://blogger.djh****.com Do not use the link! It will redirect you to a copycat Twitter log-in page, and then forward you to a fake fail whale -- and then later, when you least expect it, your account will have its...  
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What if your Twitter client stayed up when Twitter is down? Believe it or not -- it's possible. I'm sure it's crossed the minds of the people who run Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Brizzly, Seesmic, et al. What if users could keep communicating with people who used the same tool you use and have all your tweets flow out through Twitter when they're back on the air? Even better, what if Tweetie and Brizzly got together and worked out a way for their users...  
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[...] Post By Google News Click Here For The Entire Article Twitter Traffic Machine Review- November 3rd, 2009 | Category: Twitter Traffic Machine [...]  
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Facebook logged 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among155 social networking Web sites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site's market share from September 2008. HitWise gauged the online traffic of 10 million U.S. Web users across one million Web sites. Twitter boasted astronomical growth, up 1,170 percent from its negligible .15 percent market share from September 2008. As far as social sites go, Twitter is positioned to be...  
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