![]() This will let us make sure we have all staff available in the unlikely event something goes wrong on our end. The current plan is to force this issue at 21:00 GMT (2:00pm Pacific/5:00pm Eastern for those in the US). The responses to and all discussions internally show a preference to not waiting until the middle of the night. No decision has been made yet but I wanted to get something out to you all so you know what’s going on in the event we decide to do this. Nobody is their freshest at 3:00am, not to mention it would be nice to not have apps broken throughout the weekend if one-person developer teams don’t notice. There is some discussion internally about accelerating things so we’ll be in the office and able to cope. The current estimate is around tomorrow at around 11am GMT, or 3:00am Pacific time in the case of Twitter. The overflow of the 32-bit signed integer value for status ids (a.k.a “The Twitpocalypse” ) is fast approaching. Engineer Matt Sanford originally explained: This Google Group thread run by some developers working at Twitter explains more. ![]() They’re forcing the failure now so that all hands are on deck working on the issue, rather than having it go down in the middle of the night. This crash was supposed to happen sometime tomorrow, according to the countdown, but it looks like Twitter has just moved up the Twitpocalypse time to 21:00 GMT, which is 2 PM Pacific/5PM Eastern time today. This number is the signed integer limit and apparently when some third-party Twitter clients start hitting it, the identifiers will start turning negative, and those apps are likely to crash as a result. This identifier is about to hit 2,147,483,647. ![]() Apparently, it’s similar to the Y2K bug in its nature, and stems from the fact that every tweet sent out has a unique numeric identifier. Twitpocalypse is the name given to a bug that’s about to be exposed. Twitter users, the Twitpocalypse is upon us.
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