Twitpocalypse

June 16th, 2009 Ryan Johnson

The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. The unique identifier associated to each tweet has now exceeded 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.

The Tweet of the Twitpocalypse occured on 2009-06-12 23:52:04 GMT
the Twitpocalypse is still happening and its current rate is 204 tweets per second
Tweets so far
2147483649

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One Response to “Twitpocalypse”

  1. How I Make $300 a Day Online says:
    June 18, 2009 at 6:05 am

    Hey, nice post, very well written. You should write more about this.

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