As some of you may have noticed the possible crashing of Twitter , and we don’t mean the typical Fail Whale type, is being talked about on the web by a couple of blogs. The actual term is Twitpocalypse and results from the way that Twitter keeps track of each tweet made through the service.
This dire event which will occur primarily with Twitter clients happens because – well to quote the Twitpocalypse site:
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647 1
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.
Interestingly enough the more popular and bigger name blogs might be only now catching onto this but I’d like to remind our readers that you actually heard about this imminent catastrophe here at the Inquisitr back in May of this year.
Yes folks, even though you won’t hear it on Techmeme or any of the other loudmouths The Inquisitr was right there at the forefront of keeping you informed of all things Twitter and catastrophic – just as we always will be but without the ego and bluster.
