Twitter has a few issues, doesn't it? Random 503 server errors, failing to follow or delete something, and now they gave me a whale:
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I suppose 8 birds would be over capacity if they tried to lift a whale... I guess it's called the "Fail Whale" and it can be quite common to see. There's over 100 tweets a day about seeing the whale, so you can bet there's a lot more people that just ignore it.
A whale is fine too.
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