Twitter Shows the Whale after announcement of 3G iPhone.

Proposal: "Showing the whale" will now replace the terms "Epic Fail" and "Belly up" in the web 2.0 lexicon and become shorthand for any sort of transitory service failure of a web application.

I feel that the slightly rude tone of the term "Showing the whale" appropriately reflects the disrespect a user feels when I service they rely on goes down without explanation.

The folks at Twitter have embraced the term:

http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png

Yes, I know :-)

Showed the whale,

Jumped the shark,

Epic fail,

Nothing but carp.

Its all fish to me. :)

Well done good sir.

Oh, I had to up-vote this because it is so funny!

But I agree with jraines, it should be called the "Fail Whale".

Please. It's far more efficient to post a news story when Twitter is up.

What? Twitter went down? I'd demand a refund immediately ...

I prefer "Twitter is throwing the Fail Whale"

no surprise here