Twitpocalypse?
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 1:37PM According to the website http://www.twitpocalypse.com/, there will be a cataclysmic event in the Twitterverse. At 1700 PM EST (19 minutes from now), the Unique Signed Integer will reach 2,147,483,647. The USI is a number given to each Tweet.
"The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed2,147,483,6471"
When this number is hit, it is said that some third party services (not capable of handling such an integer) connected to the Twitter API will cease to function for a short period of time. At this point, they are said to either malfunction or crash.
As of the writing of this post, the Twitpocalypse is set for 13 Jun, 2009 7:05:16 AM GMT (about 2:05 AM EST)
Raymond Mendoza
It is currently 20:23 EST and I just visited Twitpocalypse and found this:
The Tweet of the Twitpocalypse occured on 2009-06-12 23:52:04 GMT
That was about an hour and a half ago. I noticed nothing.
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