You might have noticed that when ever twitter is down a blue whale shows up ,basically a “fail whale” error message created by Australian artist and designer Yiying Lu. It’s 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.”
She didn’t expect that her work would become a ‘hit’ after uploading her illustration to iStockphoto in July 2007 until Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter happened to stumble across her image a year later. During that time, Twitter was experiencing regular service outrages and this had spurred Stone on to find a suitable and cute downtime image. He purchased the iStockPhoto’s standard license, which grants a perpetual worldwide right for such online uses.
Gradually, the the Fail Whale image started to gain popularity on the micro-blogging platform. However, the designer herself wasn’t widely known. This is when Tom Limongello, a Twitter enthusiast decided to make her popular. After asking Yiying Lu to set up a Fail Whale online store on Zazzle so that everyone on Twitter can enjoy her work, she managed to gain fame on the micro-blogging platform. This was how Fail Whale was born .
Okay this is was a little history of the "Fail Whale" , i compiled a list of 50+ Fail Blue Graphis , so get your mouse scroller ready cause it is going to be a long------ Long list .
Some of the images have been taken from Fandomania,mashable and the rest have been uploaded to flickr. Hope you like this post
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She didn’t expect that her work would become a ‘hit’ after uploading her illustration to iStockphoto in July 2007 until Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter happened to stumble across her image a year later. During that time, Twitter was experiencing regular service outrages and this had spurred Stone on to find a suitable and cute downtime image. He purchased the iStockPhoto’s standard license, which grants a perpetual worldwide right for such online uses.
Gradually, the the Fail Whale image started to gain popularity on the micro-blogging platform. However, the designer herself wasn’t widely known. This is when Tom Limongello, a Twitter enthusiast decided to make her popular. After asking Yiying Lu to set up a Fail Whale online store on Zazzle so that everyone on Twitter can enjoy her work, she managed to gain fame on the micro-blogging platform. This was how Fail Whale was born .
Okay this is was a little history of the "Fail Whale" , i compiled a list of 50+ Fail Blue Graphis , so get your mouse scroller ready cause it is going to be a long------ Long list .
Some of the images have been taken from Fandomania,mashable and the rest have been uploaded to flickr. Hope you like this post
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