[zamfi]

Hah! I did something quite similar back in the day for text message notifications of server downtime.

The problem was that sometimes Twitter's messages were delayed by hours...

[bnt]

Does anyone remember the drama of failwhale and their Rails issues? Those were the times!

[rhizome]

You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?

https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...

[rhizome]

Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw

[ChrisArchitect]

was thinking about the failwhale a few weeks back when github went down and was throwing angry pink unicorns. Different, pre-coronavirus times.