Twitpocalypse Announcement

[Matt Sanford]

Hi all,

The overflow of the 32-bit signed integer value for status ids
(a.k.a "The Twitpocalypse" [1]) is fast approaching. The current
estimate is around tomorrow at around 11am GMT, or 3:00am Pacific time
in the case of Twitter. There is some discussion internally about
accelerating things so we'll be in the office and able to cope. 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. 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.

Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev

[1] - http://www.twitpocalypse.com/

[Matt Sanford]

Hello again,

The responses to @twitterapi and all discussions internally show
a preference to not waiting until the middle of the night. The current
plan is to force this issue at 21:00 GMT (2:00pm Pacific/5:00pm
Eastern for those in the US). This will let us make sure we have all
staff available in the unlikely event something goes wrong on our end.
We'll also be available when people who don't follow the twitter-dev-
talk list start reporting errors. While we did warn developers about
the Twitpocalypse I'm sorry we didn't think about setting a drop-dead
date and scheduling this previously. We'll keep trying to improve on
warnings like this.

Good night, and good luck.

Thanks;
– Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
Twitter Dev