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ZDNet: "Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” is a significant departure in terms of User Interface from previous versions. But will end-users accept the changes?"

Tired of slogging through Facebook's interface? Sick of seeing the Fail Whale? Cut through the cruft and simplify your social services with Gwibber -- a microblogging client for Linux that supports Identi.ca, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

Yes, as our trusty readers have noted today, Twitter is out for the count with the famous Fail Whale adorning the site.

Twitter search remains up, although of course there are no new Tweets listed.

Millions of people might be hitting retail sites today for Cyber Monday, but are they also hitting Twitter to the point that the site is failing?

The Fail Whale, signalling Twitter downtime, is a source of frustration for many Twitter users; now you can take out your rage in a fun Flash game called Die Fail Whale.

Andrew Conn, a 26 year old designer and developer based in Seattle, claims the game took 60 hours to create.

He writes:

Getting a fail whale this morning again on Twitter.

SMTP never game me a whale. Nor has POP3, SSH, XMPP or any of the other protocols in the Internet Suite.

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