What is Failwhale?

Fail Vala is an illustrated graphics of a whale held by a flock of birds. Perhaps it is most greatly employed during the downtime period by Twitter, which allows users to send and share brief messages known as "tweets". Although Failwowale was not specially designed for Twitter, he came so closely associated with the service that many people are unaware of the origin and designer of the whale. In March 2008, Twitter designers were obviously affected by design and accepted it for one of their messages on the server to have sites to have something they should look at while the problems of the server overload were solved.

initially did not have a formal name, but within a few days of receiving, use, use, use, usage began to call it "Fail Whale" or "Failwhale", referring to the popular Internet meme built around the word "Fail". Several Twitter users seems to have started using the name simultaneously, with several main Twitter sources popularizing name,Which caused it to spread like a fire.

Twitter employees can be less than pleased with Failwhale and what it means, but has acquired their own fan club and a zealous community of fans. Failwhale has its own Twitter source, fans' pages and a group of fans on other social networks, along with a number of goods such as T -shirts, stickers and bags. When Lu realized the popularity of Failwhale, the illustration of the girlfriend Whale, Eve Whale, along with other versions of Fainwhale, also released the whale fans.

This iconic illustration also shows a serious problem that experiences any popular website, as the server operation exceeds the ability of the system to cope with operation, causing the site failure until the problem is resolved. Users expect services like Twitter to always be available and are often extremely frustrated and irritated by downtime periods even when tATO period short. For Twitter users, Fan Fan is one of the ways to vent frustration while waiting for the website to return to functionality, although most users would probably be absolutely happy that we will never see failure in action again.