It should be a twitter bird plugging a hairdryer into the servers.
bud
· 1 year ago
**PLEASE READ IF YOU HAVE COMMENTED OR ARE ABOUT TO**
The fail whale has NOT been replaced. It is merely the first time that Adam has seen this worm and cone image, and he is suggesting it is replacing the Fail Whale. Boy, those half truths and innuendo make great link bait don't they. Welcome to the sucker train.
THE FAIL WHALE STILL LIVES.
Here are some error message images and their meanings. By the way, the meanings are in English write under the illustrations, when you see them.
The Fail Whale - when servers are accidently down and you can't pull up your time line or tweet, you see Failey the whale.
Twitterpillar and the Cone of Chill, as above- this means twitter has taken down part of the database PURPOSEfully, for maintenance, as the caption suggests.
Hootie F*ck Owl, the WTF Owl- This means the twitter name you are seeking has had their account suspended for investigation of spam following.
The nonexistant Bird- a blue outline of a bird that merely states this page does not exist.
These all still exist. Including the Fail Whale. The Fail Whale is not being replaced. The fail wahle shows up in different circumstances. The Twitterpillar has been around at least a month.
So before you go crying over beached whales, remember, use your head, and your own experiences, before you get trapped in some half assed half cocked linkbait misinformation, like every other sky is falling idiot spreading the Whale is Dead crap across twitter. The fail whale still lives.
I suspect the fail whale will still live, unless the illustrator involved tries to renegotiate rights.
The sky is not falling, and sometimes the whale is not failing, but the fail whale is still around.
Dave
· 1 year ago
Time... You have too much of it.
Dan London
· 1 year ago
What happened to the planned FAil Whale Ale?
netik
· 1 year ago
Fail whale ale existed briefly. It was available at the FAIL party, and was quite tasty.
Kate
· 1 year ago
Okay, I might be wrong, but shouldn't the legs of the caterpillar be on the other side of its body? It sort of looks like a porcupinesque worm right now...
Dave Jeyes
· 1 year ago
I like the moniker 'Caterpillar Cone' best. If only I could remember which one of my tweeples called it that.
bud
· 1 year ago
The failwhale is not gone. There is a difference between down on purpose and oops we is fail.
So you have the caterpillar and cone, Faily the Whale that lovely Carvel product, and Hooty F--- Owl, or the WTF Owl, which comes up on suspect accounts. Even the old twitter bird for page not found is still around.
That being that, there is a lot of downtime and other issues with Twitter lately, that are not even getting the courtesy of a mascot, the twitter burps are so bad.
Dan London
· 1 year ago
isn't that a caterpillar?
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
lol, I think you might be right ... my knowledge of insects is not very strong
Andrew Baron
· 1 year ago
Grasshopper??? That's an inch worm, moving slowly.
Noreen
· 1 year ago
Whatever it is, as much as I love Twitter, I am so sick of the down time and it always seems it happens when you are having an epiphany or wanting to twitter something the world must hear!!
Laura Good
· 4 months ago
Noreen--in those moments, use something like tweetlater to capture your tweet for future delivery :) @goodlaura
James Borow
· 1 year ago
Joined Twitter during the run up to the elections and this is my first fail caterpillar experience. My initial response was that this is ridiculous and over the last two hours, as I have been frantically refreshing twitter to respond to a DM, I realized that this is actually absurd. How in the world can this happen? Is there a good explanation? I would love to know... On a side note that Ice Cream Cone is pretty baller.
SIGEPJEDI
· 1 year ago
Since when is database maintenance performed during the day? Those crazy web2.0 funded companies, what will they think of next???
shinmai
· 1 year ago
I'm just glad Twitter is doing "maintenance" during _MY_ night-time for a change. I realize most of twitters userbase is american, but it gets frustrating, when we get all the down-time and maintenance-crap during our "prime-time"...
Tiago Rodrigues
· 1 year ago
This isn't the first time the fail catterpillar appears. I can't really say when the first time was, but it was more than a month ago and I think it's been reported somewhere else.
And yes, I also preferred the whale.
Timmy
· 1 year ago
I really like Twitter, but down time seems to be a recurring trend. They need to figure out some way of consistently getting revenue and use the money for more reliable performance, I think...
@Kate, I think some caterpillars have bristles: http://is.gd/80hH (Mashable seems to have a feud against links. go to: is dot gd slash 80hH for a picture)
Okay stop hating on Twitter. All sites have downtimes (but, Twitter has a bit more). They did a great job during the election and their uptimes are getting better everyday. But, I wonder how long it will take Twitter to have an average uptime of 99% (or 98%) per year. Hmm....
John Flynn
· 1 year ago
Says a lot about our Twitter usage.
D.
· 1 year ago
Been a while since Twitter's gone down for a while, hasn't it? The whale was epic! They shouldn't replace it with a caterpillar...
Tamara Gruber
· 1 year ago
This is the first time a Twitter outage actually effected my plans for sharing news today. Shows how much we've come to depend on it.
man what a bunch of fucking dorks. 4chan did this shit years ago, you fucking faggots.
Dave
· 1 year ago
And that you even *know* "4chan did this four years ago", makes you a bigger faggot. Congratulations!
Ben Adkins
· 1 year ago
I actually got the "fail whale" yesterday.... Never caught the caterpillar
Henrique
· 6 months ago
I don't know about you, but my Twitter had "planned maintenance on 2p Pacific" (or something like that) written right under the "what are you doing?" box... so you're completely wrong about saying it wasn't planned in advance. And the fail whale is NOT dead. But I agree with others on the time chosen to do this... it's like mid-afternoon when everyone was supposed to be tweeting, not working!
Austin H.
· 6 months ago
i miss my fail whale... ice cream cone is weird!
Cheryl
· 4 months ago
How about the fail snail? No I do not spend all of my time thinking about this stuff. LOL
All Comments
The fail whale has NOT been replaced. It is merely the first time that Adam has seen this worm and cone image, and he is suggesting it is replacing the Fail Whale. Boy, those half truths and innuendo make great link bait don't they. Welcome to the sucker train.
THE FAIL WHALE STILL LIVES.
Here are some error message images and their meanings. By the way, the meanings are in English write under the illustrations, when you see them.
The Fail Whale - when servers are accidently down and you can't pull up your time line or tweet, you see Failey the whale.
Twitterpillar and the Cone of Chill, as above- this means twitter has taken down part of the database PURPOSEfully, for maintenance, as the caption suggests.
Hootie F*ck Owl, the WTF Owl- This means the twitter name you are seeking has had their account suspended for investigation of spam following.
The nonexistant Bird- a blue outline of a bird that merely states this page does not exist.
These all still exist. Including the Fail Whale. The Fail Whale is not being replaced. The fail wahle shows up in different circumstances. The Twitterpillar has been around at least a month.
So before you go crying over beached whales, remember, use your head, and your own experiences, before you get trapped in some half assed half cocked linkbait misinformation, like every other sky is falling idiot spreading the Whale is Dead crap across twitter. The fail whale still lives.
I suspect the fail whale will still live, unless the illustrator involved tries to renegotiate rights.
The sky is not falling, and sometimes the whale is not failing, but the fail whale is still around.
So you have the caterpillar and cone, Faily the Whale that lovely Carvel product, and Hooty F--- Owl, or the WTF Owl, which comes up on suspect accounts. Even the old twitter bird for page not found is still around.
That being that, there is a lot of downtime and other issues with Twitter lately, that are not even getting the courtesy of a mascot, the twitter burps are so bad.
I realize most of twitters userbase is american, but it gets frustrating, when we get all the down-time and maintenance-crap during our "prime-time"...
And yes, I also preferred the whale.
(Mashable seems to have a feud against links. go to: is dot gd slash 80hH for a picture)
The whale was epic! They shouldn't replace it with a caterpillar...
*crash-0-pilla*
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