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Twitter's failwhale is from iStockphoto

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6 points·joshwa··4 comments

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Guess what? The broken robot: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/illustrations-vector... and home page illustration: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4237042 are also stock images.

Is it?

Uploaded On: 2007-11-04

I'm pretty sure the fail whale was around before Nov. 2007?

Maybe that's finally a promising money-making scheme for Twitter? I think the fail whale could outlive Twitter.

I think they just liked the picture and they didn't get exclusive rights to it.

http://www.yiyinglu.com/sc/illustration/personal-illustratio...

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