As I signed up for twitter during a period of “high maintenance” (that’s polite for almost-constant brokenness), I encountered the fail whale quite often—and learned to like it, in its own way, because it had become a tradition of sorts, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
Twitter’s Charming “mascot”, the Fail Whale
And funnily, every time I visit the page in my Firefox instance, the Awesomebar keeps reminding me of the times when the whale was ubiquitous:
How nice: Nostalgia 2.0.
There used to be a time when twitter.com spammers still made an effort to disguise the fact that they’re, well… spammers:
Subtle, really!
Now it has happened: As an effect of the urgent need for a weekend, I registered with twitter. Only adding people I could think of easily, I am not “following” 37 people 
Of course, my twitter experience started all peachy right off the bat, by first giving me site errors:
(hey, at least they are pretty)
… and then I noticed something weird about the times they show on every page:
“ungefähr 1 Stunde ago from web…” … is that… Germenglish? Englerman?
But let’s not be discouraged. They probably just started their announced maintenance window four hours early
Anyone else think I forgot to “follow” them on twitter? Leave a comment.