Brill, Thanks for explaining for us Twitter Noobs :)

Hope the following helps (with thanks to wiki)

When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the "fail whale" error message image created by Yiying Lu,[55] an illustration of red birds using a net to hoist a whale from the ocean along with the text [56] "Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try a

Acupuncture on the Whale proved less than easy , in fact it was, F Awful.

The umbilical cord just got tighter.!

Fed. Indefinitely For Assholes.

OK Epic Fail! As an occasional user of Twitter, I simply don't get it. Please put me out of my misery.

It's the Fail Whale... You know, as in the "Twitter is over capacity" whale... :P

Aargh what's the joke, why blue whales being lifted by little red birds, someone please explain

is that coz we're always blubbering?

Someone please make this into a T-shirt! Hurry!!

Perhaps 3 donkeys and instead of 'The FA' it def should be Sweet FA. Give fabio the euros then English manager!!!!

Sperm whales I take it?

There's a lot of Derp ITT.

lovin it

its because they did so badly, they are 3 whales instead of 3 lions xD

Sad but true:0)

Im not sure if get it????????????

Its the FAIL WHALE!

I really dont get it either