Jun
6
2008

pretty pictures

Twitter Downtime Message
Twitter outages annoy me far more than I’d like to admit — yes, I’ve apparently become that attached to the service — but at least they offer lovely stock illustrations on their error pages. The one at right, by Australia-based illustrator Yiying Lu (helloyiying on iStockphoto) is both sweetly whimsical and wryly self-referential, with its huge whale held aloft by tiny birds.

Updated July 6 at 11:41 p.m.: The “Fail Whale” now has a fan club and merchandise.

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Posted at 12:32 PM in design, technology

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that’s so funny, I texted Aaron about that same image when I found twitter had been maxed out, we were surprised that they use stock images. Really sweet, though!~

Posted by Pamela on June 22, 2008 9:13 PM

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