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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Following an overwhelming period of growth, Twitter.com is now experiencing a decline in its US traffic to the micro-blogging site, eMarketer has reported. The latest Nielsen figures put the fall at a considerable 27.8 percent between September and October 2009, receiving 18.9 million unique hits.Fellow market data provider, comScore, also noted the trend, recording an 8.1 percent decline for the month of October. Compete registered only a 2.1...  
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Co-owner of Twitter, Biz Stone, has spoken about Rupert Murdoch's pay-wall plans and believes the owner of News Corp's ideas would "fail fast".Discussing the matter at an event in London, Stone likened Murdoch's radical plans to turn the Sun and the Times websites into subscription-based models to when the car took over from horse, saying: "I am sure that during the transition from horses to automobiles there were some people bemoaning the...  
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It may not have taken a rocket scientist (or aficionado) to have guessed that the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch and NASA tweetup would cause a spike in Twitter traffic. What is surprising is that it wasn't the most-tweeted NASA story of the past week--that honor goes to the announcement of the discovery of water on the Moon.  
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Where did all of the Twitter traffic go? I know we've had people clicking-through from tweets to our site (at least that's what Bit.ly is telling me). But I'm not seeing much traffic at all in my web analytics tool. It turns out that nearly 70% of Twitter traffic that gets referred to a website from a tweet goes unmeasured if you are using a typical web analytics tool like Google Analytics or Omniture.  
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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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AFP Twitter Traffic: 3 Solutions to Twitter's Growth Problem Mashable (blog) In the span of one up-and-down week, Twitter lost one of their most influential teen Twitterers in Miley Cyrus, and then almost immediately found new life ... Microsoft Bing Does Real-Time with Twitter and Facebook Updates Ethio Planet News Web search in a post- Twitter world BetaNews Search experts weigh in on Google and Bing's real-time deals with Twitter...  
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