Oh nos, Twitter is heading toward someth…
Oh nos, Twitter is heading toward something similar to a Y2k bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. It’s at around 2,113,183,266 right now. That’s a site dedicated to this: http://www.twitpocalypse.com/
ProgrammableWeb explains:
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
Every tweet in Twitter’s system is uniquely identified by an integer value. For example, the system’s very first public tweet, “just setting up my twttr,” by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is tweet number 20 (presumably tweets 0 through 19 were used for testing). The maximum signed 32-bit integer value for most database applications is 2,147,483,648.
Everyone should find some good shelter and hide. And consider food rationing too. And slow down your Twitters, we can just live a day longer.
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