Say it with me people: "SUCCESS" - Steve Rubel from Bookmarklet

EPIC FAIL FTW! - Hao Chen

No, FTW = FTW! - Steve Rubel

After today's performance with the quake pressure, this is a whale-deserved new design! - Kevin Sablan from twhirl

hey this is cool! i like it !! yeah, a happy whale! - Susan Beebe

But the twitterers are dragging it down. - jcunwired

Good one, Steve. :) - l0ckergn0me

'o' hehe - videopixil

Win Whale! - Mister Groonk

But will it be success for those poor birds when the whale pulls them under. :-D -

Prevail Whale! lol - Shey

prevail-whale: glad you all enjoyed the tribute to 1. Yiying Lu's beautiful original design, 2. Twitter's success today. Thanks to Steve Rubel et al. for the inspiration (success). - John LeMasney

The power of positive thinking. - Zena Weist

those birds look dead - NoahDavidSimon

I still wonder why the whale wants to levitate. - Morton Fox

the whale is still asleep though. I've always taken the sleeping whale to represent Twitter being asleep at the wheel. - Duncan Riley

when I look at it, I see a whale flying without wings. Black magic afoot! - Bwana

It looks like it is flying up to whale heaven after the little birds impaled it with 8 poison-tipped spears. - Kevin Bondelli

@Kevin Bondelli i like the cut of your jib. - idnan

http://www.babelnote.com/failwha... - Jason Carreira

Ha! I like the pic, Jason. - Kevin Bondelli

Not sure if birds are trying to pull FailWhale back into the water... - Andrew Feinberg

One of the reasons I respect Steve. I get very tired of watching all the critics shout FAIL everytime someone tries to do something new and doesn't get it right the first time. It's much better to encourage those who take the risks that others won't. - Ray Grieselhuber

kill this whale ! - Ryo

I considered opening the eyes, but I thought that would play too much with the original illustration. The tweets are indeed trying to pull down the whale into the water, but the whale is prevailing against the strain. That whale is rising up, like a phoenix, or at least that's what I was trying to convey. ;) Thanks again to Steve for the inspiration. - John LeMasney

w00t!!! Viva da Success Whale - long may he live!!! I'm a diehard Twitter fan - not going anywhere!! ;) - Mari Smith

Definitely like this one! - David Cook