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> fail whale do you mean "whale fall"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall

• diab0lic 4y ago
  The commenter likely meant “fail whale”[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages
• borkt 4y ago
  No, op didnt
• vedran 4y ago
  https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale > The fail whale is a graphic that appears when the social networking website Twitter.com is experiencing technical difficulties. The image is of a whale being lifted by 8 orange birds and was created by Yiying Lu.
• chrisbaker98 4y ago
  Back in the day, Twitter's error page showed a cartoon picture of a whale, which became nicknamed "the fail whale". The fail whale was a common sight on Twitter circa 2009 because the site couldn't scale fast enough to match the demand and errors were frequent - that's the era GP is referring to by the fail whale times.
  • neilv 4y ago
    The SuperNews documentary on Twitter elaborates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Ff2X_3P_4&t=168s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Ff2X_3P_4&t=168s
• croes 4y ago
  https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale