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bit.ly Has A Fail Pet

by Prateek Rathod on 20 December 2009


This is really awesome – popular URL shortening service bit.ly has a fail pet too.

 

bit.ly fail pet - pufferfish

 

 

You must have noticed twitter’s fail whale and Google Wave’s similar down page. Few days ago, Frédéric Wenzel found that social code repository site github also has a fail pet – pink fail-unicorn.

 

To see bit.ly’s fail pet, a pufferfish, open any non-existing bit.ly URL, say http://bit.ly/arpitkkumar and you will get it. :)

 

Twitter’s fail whale appears only when twitter is down, but bit.ly’s fish appears for all non existing URLs. It seems that fail pets & down pages are the latest craze on Internet.

Cool!

  { Thanks Phani Raj }



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