Twitter Fail Whale Photoshops (Updated)

By now you’re all familiar with the fail whale that greets you when twitter is over-capacity, right? Especially, lately…

When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the “fail whale” error message created by Sydney artist and designer Yiying Lu, a whimsical illustration of red birds using nets to hoist a whale from the ocean. The message reads: “Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” The fail whale has been featured on NPR. During May 2008 Twitter’s new engineering team implemented necessary architectural changes to deal with the scale of growth. Stability issues resulted in down time or temporary feature removal.

Well, here are a few photoshops goofing on said Fail Whale.

UPDATE: New Fail Whales after the jump.

By morrissey2637

By ChaunceyCC

Sperm Whale Fail by deezign

Whale FailHillary by wesleyshark

Fail Whale Deeznuts by shabooty

Win Whale by mel0

By Shabooty (this was an inside joke (Mayor McCheese), making fun of John Mayer)

Murdered Fail Whale

Here is the original image, so get photoshopping:

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P.S.

As an aside, not related to whale failure, I’ve been called a lot of things, but this is pretty accurate…

Thanks Kat(imdb).

So yeah, send me your whale fail photoshops and I will post them – with credit & a link to your twitter page. Cheers.

-Shabooty

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