The popular site Twitter crashed on Wednesday morning . When Twitter breaks , a cartoon whale -- nicknamed a `` fail whale '' -- pops up on computer screens instead of the functioning site . A spokesman for the company said it was investigating what caused the outage. A cartoon whale appears on the site when it has service issues . Reports say this is the first big crash for Twitter since an attack in August .
The popular site Twitter crashed on Wednesday morning . A spokesman for the company said it was investigating what caused the outage. A cartoon whale appears on the site when it has service issues . Reports say this is the first big crash for Twitter since an attack in August .