Instead of the fail whale Thursday, some people who tried to log onto Twitter's website saw what looked to be a cartoon duo of an inch worm and a soft-serve ice-cream cone.
More explicit than "Daisy, " in naming Barry Goldwater as a terrifying figure who had voted against the nuclear-test-ban treaty, "Ice Cream" (like that other ad) combines images of angelic little girls one pulling petals off a flower, the other licking an ice-cream cone while a voiceover warns that "the stakes are too high" to vote for anyone but President Lyndon Johnson.