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When Facebook Goes Down, What Should its Fail Whale Look Like?
July 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pmSource:Mashable!
Typically I give a popular service around an hour to get its act together before posting about its downtime, but for the last 15 minutes or so my Twitter friend timeline has been lighting up with messages about Facebook being down. Being Friday and all, I figured why not have some fun with it.
Twitter’s “fail whale” has become somewhat iconic, at least for those of us that use the site regularly and have become used to its quirky downtime messages. But all Facebook gives me when it goes down is this stinkin’ browser default “connection reset” page:
What should Facebook’s version of the “fail whale” be? Leave your own ideas in the comments … bonus points for original artwork We’ve got two $25 iTunes gift certificates for the best submissions.
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