The Twitter Apocalypse (Twitpocalypse) is Upon Us
Right now the #1 trending topic on Twitter is the impending Twitpocalypse.Here are the details:
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647.
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.
The Twitpocalypse was set to occur sometime tomorrow, but the people over at Twitter have decided to move up the time to 5pm ET (2pm Pacific) today. Well we are now past that time and the critical value has not yet been reached - when it does we'll see how the Twitterverse responds.
Track the countdown here.
On a side note the Twitpocalypse is set to occur at the same time as @johncmayer's Pedamundo - coincidence?
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