The Twitpocalypse is Upon Us (maybe)
A quick heads up: The Twitter Universe might – just might – collapse on itself tomorrow around noon. We apologize for the short notice.
According to these guys:
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 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.
Like the over-hyped Y2k bug, we’re a little skeptical of this scenario actually occurring. And because none of our expert testers found anything like this in our recent Twitter App Bug Battle (not that it’s your typical bug), we’re fairly confident the Twitterverse will continue its infinite expansion.
Of course, we could be wrong. In which case, popular apps like Twirl, Tweet Deck and Twitteroo will all cease to function, and one can only assume what kind of chaos might then ensue. To quote Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters: “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”
Maybe not, but it’s something to keep an eye on either way.
