Fail Whale: A History 140 Characters at a Time

Tue 1 Jul 2008

This morning Stella Met posted an interesting comment on the Fail Whale Facebook group’s wall:

“It seems romantic. What is the story of this whale? All the sites seem to have only the merchandising stuff and not the story.”

This is an interesting point and I think we should do something about it! Using what seems like the most appropriate medium, I propose that we all help to write Fail Whale’s back story using Twitter!  You can read what has already been written by searching for #fwh on summize.  And then post the next entry using your own twitter account and tagging it with “#fwh”

Please keep it clean, and let’s have some fun with this!

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7 Responses to “Fail Whale: A History 140 Characters at a Time”

  1. Jeff Sonstein says, July 1st, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Stella Met is wonderful to think of asking, and you are too for making this happen. nice. jeffs

  2. Tom Limongello says, July 1st, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Great idea - I’ll post some and tell @yiyinglu about it when she wake up tomorrow

  3. Garth Roxburgh-Kidd says, July 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am

    I just posted some of the history on deadlybloodyserious.com, and several of us have been editing the Wikipedia entry.

    http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/2008/06/yiying-failwhale/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Whale

  4. Darren says, July 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    It’s secondhand reporting, but this may help:

    http://www.vimeo.com/1104509

  5. Brandon Mendelson says, July 3rd, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Bringing the Fail Whale’s story to life brings tears to my eyes. This is priceless.

  6. stella met says, July 4th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    thanks a lot for the mention. It only felt natural that this cute whale has a backstory. I hope sth great comes out of it and if not its a nice teamwork anyway ; )

  7. Fail Funnies says, September 1st, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Can’t wait to read about this story. Looking forward to a good read :>)