At about 11:20 A.M. EST, Twitter failed. The database is down and the service is not expected to come back online for another hour. However, instead of being greeted by the infamous fail whale, I was introduced to a few newcomers.

What Do We Name This Picture?
Ok, what do we call this image?
Fail Caterpillar?
Fail Cone?
Fail InchWormCream?
Fail Catercone?
I’ll take thoughts and suggestions in the comments.
How about, Fail Pillar!
Apparently, the Wired Blog has named it “Twitterpillar”. Looks like the Fail Wail is now an endangered Twitter Creature.
On top of what I said yesterday, I would think I’d be called the Twitterpillar.