Fail Whale Art – Twart
The “Fail Whale” is the 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.
See more here – http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/
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