Nov 05
2008Twitter is over capacity and cute whale (Fail Whale).
Filed Under (Attractive, Inspiration, Interesting, Pictures, passion) by ron on 05-11-2008
Tagged Under : Aussie, birdies, capacity, cute, cute whale, Dark Side of The Moon, graphic, graphic designer, illustration, iStockPhoto, moment, money, Nick Quaranto, photo, Pink Floyd, showcase, Stock, stock photo graphic, tweets, Twitter, whale, whale picture, Wizard of OZ, work, Yiying Lu
Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
I see cute whale picture. I love this.
Twitter is over capacity and cute whale.
The Fail Whale Story
Twitter “3D Fail Whale†Widget
The Fail Whale is the illustration you see above. this illustration called “Lifting A Dreamer†is part of the work of Yiying Lu, a shanghai born now gone Aussie graphic designer that originally put the illustration in iStockPhoto as a way to showcase her work and make some money and as with any good story never expected what happened next..
Next arrived in the form of Twitter that bought the rights to use the stock photo graphic at 10 dlls as the graphic to be used by twitter whenever the site would need maintenance. the graphic was chosen because of the striking match in color pattern to twitter design and of course for the birdies. it is one of those things full of serendipity like Wizard of OZ and Pink Floyd “Dark Side of The Moon†things no one can explain but get to happen.
Then came the name of Fail Whale coined in a Tweet (pure poetry right?) by Nick Quaranto in a rare “Eureka†moment.
