Pat Ambrosio : On June 13, the Twitpocalypse will visit upon the earth.

Pat Ambrosio

Hi, I'm Pat Ambrosio. Everyday I, travel 100km on the bus, eat two breakfasts, listen to at most a hundred songs, take photos of daily things, spend 12+ hours in front of a computer monitor, on the phone when not. I like the morning commute. I build websites for a living, and I love doing this, sometimes I do it for free, so I made and shared these so far. I'm also terribly in love with this wonderful lady named Kina, sometimes she cooks me dinner, and I really love that.

2009-06-13

On June 13, the Twitpocalypse will visit upon the earth.

nickdouglas:

“Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647.” That’s 231 - 1, the largest 32-bit number and thus the largest number that certain computer programs can count to. (There aren’t really 2 billion tweets; Twitter started skipping numbers in their count several months ago.) That means that some third-party Twitter programs will break this weekend. It’s the Y2K problem for tweets. Get your tweets in now, and make them good, before the Twitpocalypse comes and makes life direly inconvenient for some of us!¹

¹Until the programmers release patches or something.

I won’t be surprised if they change the IDs to alpha-num.

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I won’t be surprised if they change
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