The Fail Whale Fan Club

Happy Halloween 2009!

Here is a collection of all the Fail Whale Pumpkin Carvings by Fans we’ve found on Flickr.To add your own Fail Whale Halloween Pumpkin, upload the image to Flickr, and tag it with “failwhale“ or “Fail Whale“.

Fail Whale Pumkin by @drummerheather

Fail Whale Jack’o'lantern by @andreakw

Fail Whale Pumkin by @jrmozart

Fail Whale Pumkin by @emmadawson

Fail Whale Pumkin by @misscissel

Fail Whale Pumkin by @savannah_elaine

Pumkin Time by @savannah_elaine

Fail Whale Pumkin by @STRduo

Fail Whale Pumkin by @jrmozart

Nautical Pumpkins by krakencrafts

Fail Whale Pumkin by @dunnypop

Trick or Tweet!

Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn as Twitter Fail Whale & Captain Ahab!

Check out their show below:

Introducing Fail Whale’s new friend Tweetie by its creator @yiyinglu -
It’s speech bubble body shape is a tweet.

Awesome story on @Mashable The Social Media Guide by @franticnews about our great info site: www.whatisfailwhale.info

Click here to check it out:

“Jackson’s death caused Twitter outages, as portrayed by Raul Orozco in this take on Twitter’s Fail Whale.” - on CNN.

Image by @raeioul based on original Fail Whale Illustration by @yiyinglu

So far our beloved whale has been featured from a lot of media publications. Here is a brief collection for whom want to have a bit of insight of Fail Whale:

* Fail Whale Story on CNN By John D. Sutter

* Fail Whale Story on New York Times by Rob Walker

* “How Fail Whale became a hit” on Sydney Morning Herald by @skytsang:

* Fail Whale Party featured on Wired Magazine by @jennydeluxe:

* Fail Whale Story on ReadWriteWeb by @sarahintampa:

Also Check out:

www.whatisfailwhale.info

It has been great to see so many Fail Whale related stories & projects!

In fact our fail whale creator @yiyinglu has set up a *What is Fail Whale.info* page for them!

Some High-Lights here:

* Lego Fail Whale and its making process by @tveskov:

* Fail Whale’s cameo role on SuperNews! “Twouble with Twitters”

* Fail Whale Artist @yiyinglu Featured on Australia’s best Sunday read “Sunday Life”:

For the entire Fail Whale sighting, check out: www.whatisfailwhale.info

Last week, in New York City, the first Shorty Awards ceremony was held to honor the twitter elite. Yiying Lu, the creator of the “Lifting a Dreamer” Fail Whale illustration was honored with the award in the “#Design” category. There’s even an article in the New York Times Magazine this weekend. Congratulations Yiying! We’re very proud of you!

If you are in San Francisco on February 18, 2009, please join us for a rendezvous of the frenetic fanboys and fangirls of FAIL. FAILParty 2: EconoFAIL will be held at Mr. Smith’s starting at 8PM.

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[DISCLAIMER: We here at the FailWhale Fan Club have the deepest respect and admiration for all those involved with US Airways Flight 1549. We are grateful that there were no casualties. The pilots, the crew, the passengers, and the emergency responders did everything they could to avert a potential disaster. That said, we also feel that laughter is always the best medicine. And this Fail Whale mod seems to be some really good medicine.]