Jan 25
If Twitter has taught us anything (beyond what everyone we’ve ever met is doing at any one time), it’s the importance of dressing up your downtime. The company’s Fail Whale image has become synonymous with downtime–a welcome reprieve from the standard error messages (that is, at least, until we saw it for the 100th time in a week).
After a recent string of outages, multimedia blogging site Tumblr finally has its own adorable face of failure, courtesy of Matthew Inman, the cartoonist behind the tech-friendly Web comic, The Oatmeal. Inman suggested the above mischievous TumblBeasts, asking Tumblr to “please oh please” use the art for future error messages.
Tumblr obliged, and now you too can be visited by the little green monsters the next time the site goes down. Fingers crossed.
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