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Re: Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (Twitter is Down)

Cheryl — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:40:12 -0000

How about the fail snail? No I do not spend all of my time thinking about this stuff. LOL

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Laura Good — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:17:28 -0000

Noreen--in those moments, use something like tweetlater to capture your tweet for future delivery :) @goodlaura

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Austin H. — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:01:26 -0000

i miss my fail whale... ice cream cone is weird!

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Henrique — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:48:10 -0000

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!

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Dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:19:52 -0000

And that you even *know* "4chan did this four years ago", makes you a bigger faggot. Congratulations!

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Dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:17:10 -0000

Time... You have too much of it.

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Ben Adkins — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:43:19 -0000

I actually got the "fail whale" yesterday.... Never caught the caterpillar

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shinmai — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:53:32 -0000

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"...

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jesuschristfaggots — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:55:06 -0000

man what a bunch of fucking dorks. 4chan did this shit years ago, you fucking faggots.

Re: Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (Twitter is Down)

Jesse Wilder — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:43:33 -0000

Oh yeah, he be chillin alright.

hess
http://www.anon.cz.tc

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Saving Money Articles — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:35:41 -0000

lol @ grasshopper.

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iRandal — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:14:40 -0000

it's the

*crash-0-pilla*

son!

Re: Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (Twitter is Down)

TORLEY 🍉 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:51:48 -0000

I'm already calling it the Failpiller. ;)

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Jeff — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:42:40 -0000

It should be a twitter bird plugging a hairdryer into the servers.

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netik — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:13:45 -0000

Fail whale ale existed briefly. It was available at the FAIL party, and was quite tasty.

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bud — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:39:51 -0000

**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.

Re: Exit Fail Whale, Enter Fail Caterpillar (Twitter is Down)

Tamara Gruber — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:35:39 -0000

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.

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D. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:24:50 -0000

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...

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John Flynn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:14:55 -0000

Says a lot about our Twitter usage.

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th13rteen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:10:56 -0000

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....

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Mike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:51:48 -0000

time to switch to laconi.ca or netppl.net *ggg*

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Simon Heseltine — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:10:26 -0000

Surely it's time for the "Fail Snail" ;)

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Dale Larson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:20:37 -0000

Failapillar MoanCone

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Dave Jeyes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:19:56 -0000

I like the moniker 'Caterpillar Cone' best. If only I could remember which one of my tweeples called it that.

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Jorge Escobar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:03:39 -0000

@Biz says the little guy already has a name... "Twitterpiller" http://twitter.com/ZacBentz...