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The fail whale is a graphic that appears when the social networking website Twitter.com is experiencing technical difficulties. The image is of a whale being lifted by 8 orange birds and was created by Yiying Lu.

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The fail whale has become somewhat of an Internet meme in itself and is imitated both on and off the Web. In the early days, Twitter got so popular, so fast, that seeing the fail whale was a common occurence. The success of Twitter, in despite of its technical snafus, is part of the popularity of the fail whale.

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Lifting a Dreamer by Yiying Lu aka Twitter fail whale

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Margaret is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles by the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret's idea of a fun day is helping IT and business professionals learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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