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Website Design, Twitter, and the Fail Whale

April 28, 2009

Website design and Twitter both exist completely on the Internet- so how do they overlap? The Fail Whale is an iconic piece of the Twitter website design. It represented with a simple picture the struggle of the Twitter team to build the capacity of their interface, and somehow people stuck with Twitter through many waves of the Fail Whale. But where did it come from? I found some answers at ReadWriteWeb.com: The backstory is that .....

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