Twitpocalypse – the twitter Y2K, is it the end?

By Nischal Shetty on May 28th, 2009

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Twitpocalypse displays a countdown to what its author claims as the end of a few twitter apps.

Well,Â not exactly the end, but if twitter application developers do not take care of this scenario in their respective twitter applications then there are chances that the applications would behave abnormally and might even crash!

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Countdown to the Y2k of twitter
If twitter apps do not take this into account we may have a few abnormally behaving apps

Twitpocalypse Says

The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,6471

For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash.

When will this happen? Check here often, and we will tell you how close we are to the Twitpocalypse2

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Twitpocalypse – The Y2k of twitter?

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@mdufort – President | Founder: WhereCloud Inc. Everything web and mobile location-based
@fbrunel – CTO, Consulting, Web and iPhone development

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Tags: fun, twitter apps, twitter bug, twitter end, twitter y2k

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Nischal Shetty

Founder of twi5.com. I'm a twitter addict and I love trying out new twitter applications. I write small, stupid twitter rhymes once a while. Follow me on twitter @NischalShetty. You can follow @twi5 for updates on new twitter apps.

4 Responses to “Twitpocalypse – the twitter Y2K, is it the end?”

fbrunel (Frederic Brunel)
May 29, 2009 at 12:36 am | Permalink

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RT @twi5: @mdufort @fbrunel ur app just got a twi5! Plz help spread the word [link to post]

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canouar (Cynthia Anouar)
May 29, 2009 at 3:12 am | Permalink

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[link to post] Interesting Twitpocalypse.

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tweetortrick (Chris Brand)
May 29, 2009 at 3:34 am | Permalink

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u2holic (Brinson Hammond)
May 29, 2009 at 8:03 am | Permalink

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