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James Robertson

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Twitpocalypse hits Twitterific on the iPhone? Posted: Jun 14, 2009 9:37 PM
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I guess I don't pay attention to Twitter trending topics like Twitpocalypse. However, it looks like that's what's been wrong with Twitterific on my iPhone, which died 2 days ago - which lines up with this:

Twitpocalypse is the name given to a bug that's about to be exposed. 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. This identifier is about to hit 2,147,483,647. 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.

All I get from Twitterific on the iPhone now is "YAJL Error 3" :)

I suppose I should mention that anyone using Smalltalk wouldn't have this problem - Smalltalk clients don't really care how big the number they get back is....

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