Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word failwhale.
Examples
-
(Remember the failwhale and efforts to keep Twitter from going offline during the Iran uprising, for example).
-
Yes who needs a failwhale when we have the Fairfax IT department?
-
Including four Twitter failwhale birds and the iconic Twitter âTâ logo on the thumb, this Twitter Nail Art is only for the strictest of Twitter fangirls and I guess fanboys as well.
-
I mean, can you imagine MUNI style failwhale where the lights are concerned?
Clean Energy Victory Garden sfmike 2008
-
Even if there is screening about Twitters failwhale between both, it is quite natural.
NTT America’s New Data Center Aims To Harpoon Twitter’s Fail Whale MG Siegler 2005
-
My impression is that the failwhale is nore caused by external services that put load on the twitty databases. tzhose spammers who have really 50.000 contacts are few. must have 2000-9000.
-
Now, your software and hardware can be ready for the time when your app is a hit, so you won't be famous for your own personal failwhale.
-
She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...]
-
She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...]
-
She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...]
factoryjoe commented on the word failwhale
As in, the colorful character that lets you know when Twitter has gone down.
July 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word failwhale
HA HA HA HA!!! Love it!
July 25, 2008
lyuds commented on the word failwhale
oh goodness, this is a great word
August 27, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word failwhale
Seeing this again today reminds me of when S.O. said, in reference to the bizarre show element involving a dance routine executed on the green-velvety bowels of a double-decker bus in the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, "failbus."
August 27, 2008