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March 31, 2009
Whale Spotted on Twitter
By Eden Litt
It’s on T-shirts. Parties have been thrown in its honor. And now people are getting it permanently tattooed to their bodies.
It’s Twitter’s infamous “fail whale.” You know, the icon you see when the site fails to load. It’s a burly whale being hoisted out of the water by a flock of tweeting birds. Its image is becoming even more popular as the site becomes overloaded by more and more daily users. In fact, Twitter has grown more than 1,300 percent in just the past year. In comparison, Facebook grew only 228 percent during that same time.
While some have grown to love the whale watching, others find it utterly annoying. Read more about the phenomenon and Twitter’s growth here.
Posted by staff at March 31, 2009 10:41 AM
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