The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,6471, which is a the limit of a signed integer. 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.
When will the Twitpocalypse happen? That will probably be next Monday, June 15, 2009. This date is a rough approximation, please do not schedule any vacation around that date.
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