The net has been awash with chatter the past few days about the "impending doom" of Twitter as it reaches to the Twitpocalypse. Okay, that's going a bit far. The truth of it is that every tweet has a unique ID stored in their database and eventually the number has to reach a limit. That limit is 2,147,483,647 which is the highest signed number that can be stored in 32 bits. When that number is reached it will no longer allow any queries to store additional IDs which would have caused potential catastrophic failure it wasn't for the fact that twitter clients have been working on patches to not need the ID and Twitter themselves have brought the Twitpocalypse forward from the estimated deadline of 13th June 2009 at 11:19 GMT to 21:00 GMT (22:00 BST) so that they can have people working on it now whilst it's day where they are so that it doesn't fail over night.
That time has now come and gone, so fingers crossed they've succeeded in patching it - otherwise the darkness cometh.
