Twitter's Fail Whale, once a symbol of unreliability, may be due for retirement. Thanks to server upgrades, the micro-blogging platform, famous for frequent crashes, survived the weekend's double whammy of the royal wedding and Osama Bin Laden’s death without failure. That Twitter's competence was met with surprise—tweeters continue to express disbelief over the uninterrrupted service—shows how common the crashes were.
Last week Twitter jokingly posted a photo of founder Biz Stone labeling an entire server dedicated to the royal wedding.
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