Twitter Downtime Art: Fail Caterpillar & Anthropomorphic Ice Cream

by Scott Beale on November 18, 2008 · 8 comments

Fail Caterpillar & Animatronic Ice Cream

Twitter has a new maintenance image to go along with the venerable Fail Whale.

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1 Brady Brim-DeForest November 18, 2008 at 10:03 am

Oh fail whale, who I'll miss thee.

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2 JeffreyATW November 18, 2008 at 10:07 am

It's probably a downtime image rather than an overload image. I bet the fail whale will be kept around for times that the server can't take it.

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3 hawaii November 18, 2008 at 11:30 am

First time I saw the “Failerpillar” was Oct. 6. A few other folks also captured it for posterity. Though I guess his cool friend still needs a nickname…

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4 Brock Keeling November 18, 2008 at 11:34 am

RIP, whale.

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5 Khritteroo November 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Howdy – different images for different statuses – these guys have been around for a while

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6 Xopl November 18, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Anthropomorphic* ice cream.

Also, the fail whale is alive and well. I've seen this before. This is for planned downtime — fail whale is unplanned.

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7 Shapes of Sweetness November 18, 2008 at 1:51 pm

That is dope and so is the fail whale. I would like to see a fail PB&J next.

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8 edrabbit November 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm

I hear rumors that the Fail Whale has been set free from captivity. Exclusive photo of him being released into the wild: http://www.geeked.info/real-life-fail-whale/

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