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“(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?”
“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
“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 [...]”
“But scaling the real time web has proved a challenge (e.g the frequent surfacings of the Twitter failwhale during big events).”
“She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...] - STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘failwhale’.
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unkind words
unkind words or those refering them.
twit, gibe, blockhead, bonehead, cretin, dullard, imbecile, simpleton, clod, dunce, simp, ignoramus and 39 more...
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twits
for followers of twelveplusone
spaz, failwhale, webcock, dickjam, fuck me in the horse, monopod, acatalectic, frecency
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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"My Little _____"
Endearments too cute and/or funny to ignore.
chickpea, piglet, mon chi chi, gummi bear, poochie, sweetpea, stud muffin, sweetcakes, fuckbunny, chubchub, pookie, snugger and 38 more...
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Insults
whoreson, unmuzzled, saucy, miscreant, prating, peevish, knavish, eye-offending, brazen, bawdy, vainglorious, hardscrabble and 15 more...
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Factory Joe's Dictionary
The favorite and phantasmagorical word pickings of Chris Messina.
transmogrification, placelessness, surreal, believe, ambidextrous, brinkmanship, utter, sasquatch, serendipitous, opinion, ayatollah, skirmish and 66 more...
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Teh Interwebs
So, I herd u liek Mudkips?
lolcat, caturday, internets, interweb, kthxbai, egosurfing, baleeted, pebkac, fubar, wiki, zomg, lols and 19 more...
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Clever neologisms
canadar, webcock, failwhale, hobosexual, barachnophobia, porkgasm, moneymoon, wikiballing
Tweets
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chained_bear 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." Aug 27, 2008
lyuds oh goodness, this is a great word
Aug 26, 2008
chained_bear HA HA HA HA!!! Love it! Jul 25, 2008
factoryjoe As in, the colorful character that lets you know when Twitter has gone down. Jul 25, 2008