Life Explorer (Author of Raising Children in a Digital Age; Original history of Keep Calm and Carry On)

The Fail Whale

The Fail Whale is utilised by the microblogging service Twitter during periods of downtime. If you’ve never seen the fail whale (very unusually), here it is:

The story of the Fail Whale
The Fail Whale Fan Club
Site from the designer of the Fail Whale, @yiyinglu or the @failwhale fan club
Check recent news via Google on the Fail Whale.
Kill off the Fail Whale.
Read about Twitter from Wikipedia, including the history, etc. of it.

Tags Cultural Change, Fail Whale, Social Media, Twitter

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Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @ Manchester Metropolitan University. Interested in digital literacy and digital culture in the third sector (especially faith). Author of 'Raising Children in a Digital Age', regularly checks hashtag #DigitalParenting.

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