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Twitter Fail whale... a 3D sculpture from the MAKE Flickr photo pool

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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Hil writes -

[Here's] A little kinetic sculpture of the lovely Twitter Failwhale, based on the image by Yiying Lu that is used when Twitter.com is over-capacity. The image is called' Lifting up a Dreamer' I’ve wanted to make this since I first saw the image some weeks ago.

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Posted by: Doufer on June 30, 2008 at 11:05 AM

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I call it Twhale!

Very nice sculpture!

Doufer

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Posted by: ramrol511 on June 30, 2008 at 12:13 PM

wow i wonder were you got that idea from oh ya, almost every other time you log into twitter. you see it. at least it happens to me every time.

very cool sculpture! i wish i could do stuff that good.

peace

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