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    • August 31, 2008

    A singing bird

    — devadutta @ 10:45 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220222720 ) Play

    Simple one to end this month. What is being mocked at?

    Cracked by: Achilles , Goyal , Dibyo , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , varuns88 , Rc , Kamal Rathi , duriel , akhi , Chandrakant Nair , Akshat , jayanth , BiGFooT , sidsen.

    Answer:

    Twitter’s infamous “Fail Whale”.

    Apprently, Beluga Whales are known as the canaries of the sea, thus twitter which is down is a bird in the sea, which is a Beluga Whale.

    Nice Funda :)

    20 Responses to “A singing bird”

    1. Achilles Says:
      August 31st, 2008 at 11:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220225238 )

      The Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ and also makes a ingenious reference to Ruby on Rails.


    2. Goyal Says:
      August 31st, 2008 at 11:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220225861 )

      Twitter


    3. Dibyo Says:
      August 31st, 2008 at 11:40 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220226015 )

      Twitter and the failwhale thing…

      		Dibyo

    4. Atul Mathew Says:
      August 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220226229 )

      Twitter and the “fail whale” error message.


    5. shenoyvarun86 Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 12:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220230011 )

      Twit… Twit…Twiterrrrr
      The fail whale

      		shenoyvarun86

    6. Tathagata Chatterjee Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 1:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220231998 )

      Failwhale twitter.

      Regards,
      Tathagata Chatterjee


    7. varuns88 Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 2:15 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220235351 )

      Twitter?

      		varuns88

    8. Rc Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 2:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220236975 )

      Twitter.


    9. Kamal Rathi Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 3:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220238326 )

      Twitter.When Twitter crashes, users see the “fail whale” error message.


    10. duriel Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 3:28 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220239718 )

      Twitter is written in Ruby on Rails.

      In late April 2008, TechCrunch reported that due to downtime related to scaling problems, Twitter would abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java. However, this was soon debunked by Evan Williams, in a Tweet that he sent on May 1, 2008.

      This decision being mocked here (the failwhale appears when twitter is down)…


    11. Ganesh Prasad Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 4:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220243460 )

      Mockumentary on the origin and hating habits of the common Internet Troll


    12. akhi Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 5:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220245286 )

      Twitter “Fail” Whale (and some reference being made to ruby on rails)

      		akhi

    13. Chandrakant Nair Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 6:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220249428 )

      The pic is a jibe at d failwhale which appears when Twitter overloads/fails


    14. Akshat Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 6:18 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220249937 )

      The twitter ‘fail whale’ of course :)


    15. Siddharth Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 6:42 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220251321 )

      Dicky Moe


    16. Nakul Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220255678 )

      Moby dick?


    17. jayanth Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 8:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220258140 )

      twitter.. “fail whale”

      		jayanth

    18. yaksha Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220261935 )

      LOL cats

      		yaksha

    19. BiGFooT Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 10:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1220265472 )

      Fail Whale – the downtime image shown on Twitter


    20. sidsen Says:
      September 1st, 2008 at 10:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1220308088 )

      twitters is over capacity i’m guessing


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