Comments on: Hello, Yiying! The creator of the “Fail Whale”

By: Flüge

Flüge — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:42:40 +0000

Well, Yiying isn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia-article anymore. 5-10 USD isn’t a lot, but in she got famous now. The Fail Whale is definetely cult and she got her accolade due to Twitters fail. I like the whole story. And finally I know who is responsible for the design of my great T-shirt:)

By: office space guy

office space guy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:10:07 +0000

I didnt realise that she was paid less than $10 for this! I have seen in the past discussions about twitter getting it for a bargain, but I still thought we were talking in the hundreds or low thousands.

I just hope that she has earned enough from the follow-ups to make it all worthwhile :)

By: garth

garth — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:26:17 +0000

Thanks, Sean. I much appreciate it.

Angela, thanks for pointing out the scrape account! There are now plenty of spam accounts that post by scraping recent tweets from the public timeline. I guess I got lucky…

By: @seanosteen

@seanosteen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:55:12 +0000

Great post. Excellent explanation of what has occured to-date, and your take on it. Thank you for all of your contributions to the Wikipedia article!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:18:04 +0000

Hi, found your blog when investigating some new person following me on twitter. I’m not sure who it is, but it looks like they reposted one of your earlier tweets. The one where you reference this blogpost. Weird.

Their twitter feed is: http://twitter.com/barfslutton

Just thought I’d let you know.