To Fail Whale or Not to Fail Whale?
November 20th, 2009 |
Twitter can’t seem to make up its mind whether to serve up the traditional “fail whale” graphic in the event of a system problem:
or this abbreviated, non-fail-whale version:
(I received both of these today.) Maybe each indicates a different type of error.
Would you miss the fail whale if it retired? (I’m not talking about the end of system errors, just the fail whale as a mascot.) It has been working awfully hard. Maybe there’s an old cetacean’s home somewhere in Florida. If you get a moment, take the poll and have your vote heard:
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I would definitely miss the Fail Whale! It’s become standard jargon within social media speak.
There’s even a definition of it in Tim O’Reilly’s The Twitter Book. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802820.
Comment by Virginia — November 20, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
NO! I would love to keep the FAIL Whale.
Comment by Design Informer — November 20, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
I would totally miss the fail whale! I already miss the “Who goes there?” owl! He was so cute. Bring back the owl! Save the whale!
Comment by Kirsti — November 20, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
I say fail whale and twitter are one in the same, keep um!
Comment by leah mcchesney — November 20, 2009 @ 2:26 pm