Alot of people are talking about Twitter being down.

I have recently called for Twitter to decentralize, I believe the features of Twitter can be covered by Tumblr, and now I realize that I’m a dedicated Twitter user and plan on staying that way. I cant explain all of the reasons why, but I am sure that its really great and I love it.

So I thought it was a great time to finally bust out my Twitter 404 Art Collection that I have been working on for almost a year. I hope you enjoy it, please send me any screen-caps of official Twitter down designs you have come across and look for a Twitter Down Art meet-up here in NYC in coming months.


Improvement soon message:


Improved Message:


Using the cute:


Napping:


Lost Connection:


Upgrading:


Upgrading (variation):


Uncertain technical problem:


Temporary Downtime


Scheduled Downtime (variation on Temporary Downtime)


The Existential:


Totally Stressing out a bit. Submitted by Britney Mason:


Overflow, shutting down for the night:


Something Went Wrong:


Something Went Wrong (variation):


Down for Database Replication Catchup:


Over Capacity (variation):


I think this one is inadvertent:


Some experts suggest this work may not be authentic:


Server Not Responding:

Ice Cream Cone Chills With Twitter Worm:

Added, 2010:
Animated Fail Whale created completely in CSS:

From Subcide



BP Fail Whale: