My design for Twitter’s “over capacity” screen

Image by Mykl Roventine
I was getting frustrated with seeing the the original birds-carrying-whale version all the time. So I thought I’d mix it up a bit.

Based on the awsome original Fail Whale illustration by @yiyinglu.

Proud to be a part of www.whatisfailwhale.info/.

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