Twitter Fail Whale

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So you think your baby's all Twitter-ready with that Kickbee while chilling in the womb? Nah, only practice makes perfect, so the folks at Belgium's Hasselt University came up with the Twoddler: a hacked Fisher-Price activity board with buttons linked to predefined Twitter messages. Obsessive parents can put photos of themselves on the buttons, so that whenever those buttons are hit the Twoddler tweets something like "@mommy I miss you." We...  

Maps of online communities, the proliferation of web trends, and popularity of social networks are among these terrific infographics depicting the social media landscape, which will help you visualize who's out there, what they're saying, and where they're sharing it. Check them out in the slideshow below -- and vote for your favorite!  

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...  

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...  

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.  

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…  

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...  

Scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS) monitoring the Twitter micro-blogging service to gauge real-time public reactions to earthquakes have looked at New Zealand tremors. read more  

NEWS.com.auChris Brown is his own fail whale, aka 'Another star quits Twitter and demands ...Los Angeles TimesPhotos: Chris Brown in March 2009, top left, and Twitter's timeless fail whale, right. Separated at birth? Credits: Bob Chamberlin / Associated Press, top; ...Chris Brown Fans Wish He Hadn't Deleted His TwitterMTV.comChris Brown on Offensive as Album Sales TankABC NewsChris Brown Quits TwitterMalaysia StarDenver Post -CDInsight...  

The Tweetmeme button found in my posts is doubling my Twitter traffic: Tweetmeme Doubling My Twitter Traffic Looking into my little feed issue I was having with Feedburner yesterday…get my latest post titled “Invoice”? You were not supposed to. Anyhow, looking into it, I found Socialize. Socialize a ...  

Millions of people might be hitting retail sites today for Cyber Monday, but are they also hitting Twitter to the point that the site is failing? We’re not sure, but thousands of users are currently seeing the infamous “fail whale” when attempting to load pages on Twitter.com. Twitter posts on their status blog: “Starting about 10 minutes ago, we began experiencing a very high rate of errors and we are working on the underlying problem.” We’ll...  

I have TV and broadband through Virgin Media, and both went down at about 6PM last night, and remained down for the next three and a half hours, though some customers are still without service this morning.  To be fair to Virgin, this is the first major outage I've had in the past two years, and I have no major issues with the service in general, but in this instance the communication to customers, both online and offline, has been woeful. I...  

Michael Learmonth / AdAge: We Ask a Twitter Co-Founder, What's Up with Fail Whale?  —  Q&A: Former Quality-Control Engineer on How Twitter Can Make Money, and Why Biz and Ev Send Such Boring Tweets  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter was the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, but it was birthed in 2006 by Mr. Dorsey …  

Twitter's an unstoppable Internet juggernaut poised on world domination, right? Maybe not. You see, in spite of the continued media lovefest (if I hear Wolf Blitzer talk about his account one more time...), the micro-blogging service's ...