I really should take note about this Twitpocalypse thing:
Twitpocalypse Not Now: Crisis Averted. Mostly.
As a few commenters have noted, and I’ve just confirmed, the popular Twitter app, Twitterrific, is completely broken right now due to API errors — at least the iPhone version. Some reports have said TweetDeck is facing similar problems.
Source: TechCrunch
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.
The distribution of Twitter length, look everyone is cramping their messages into 140 characters and probably using quite a bit of abbreviations. I don’t see how imposing a character limit is supposed to be exactly innovative here. Twitter could probably do better if they increase the character limit.
Distribution of tweet length
Get the full Twitter report here: http://blog.hubspot.com/Portals/249/sotwitter09.pdf
[via Mashable]
What happens when you can’t Twitter within 140 characters? http://www.twitlonger.com/
Or…
You could start a blog as we did.
Cafyn wouldn’t be possible without Nginx, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress.
That graph is definitely come as a surprise to me. Normally when a character limit so small is imposed and the users are aware of it, I would have expected the graph to be heavy on the long side, but not at the very end.
This clearly shows that Twitter’s limit is forcing a lot of its users to abbreviate unnecessary, even to the extend to affecting the readability of the messages.
Twitter should have lifted the limit already, or impose a significantly larger limit, if they still have to impose limits to prevent users from yakking away too much, especially since SMS is not longer one of the key ingredients of Twitter.