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Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Orion — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:24:25 -0000

Well, looks like Twittelator Pro didn't survive intact. No longer refreshes properly but instead takes you back to the time of failure forcing you to scroll back to the present to see your lastest updates

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Lucas Arruda — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:41:18 -0000

News #FAIL.
How not to write something that you don`t have enough knowledge.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Sally — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:15:26 -0000

Fie on your integers and bits. It's just that some apps will be taken up in the Rapture.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Sally — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:14:26 -0000

Fie on your integers and bits. It's just that some apps will be taken up in the Rapture.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

jeux video — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:03:36 -0000

I realize they don’t have direct control over 3rd party apps, but back when the Twitter devs were aware of the first oncoming twitpocalypse, why didn’t they just make the first post-twitpocalypse tweetID something larger than you could fit in a 32-bit unsigned int?? 2^32+1. Problem solved, now where’s *my* millions in venture capital!?!?

This would have forced 3rd parties to adopt 64-bit tweetid’s months ago. But no, here we are again. Sometimes I think Twitter employees really dig failure.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Foodie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:27:44 -0000

Why not just make it 4,000,000,000,000 and save the developers the hassle . . . or would that add more hassle . . . I probably wouldn't be asking this question if I was a developer.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

barkerja — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:14:25 -0000

Of course, but is that plenty of time for Apple to approve the applications! lol. Sorry, just hating since I dropped the iPhone like a bad habit.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Chris Thomson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:13:53 -0000

Hey Ben, this upcoming 'Twitpocalypse' is actually caused by the 32-bit unsigned integer limit, not the 64-bit integer limit. The previous Twitpocalypse was for 32-bit signed integers.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Chris Thomson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:12:03 -0000

This was announced back at the end of July. That's plenty of time for iPhone app developers to update their Twitter applications.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

HZ — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:06:27 -0000

The only true Twitpocalypse is twitter itself and all the idiocy around it, including it's engineers.

It has nothing to do with 32bit vs 64bit integers - those numbers listed as limits are signed vs unsigned 32 bit integers. 64bit unsigned upper limit is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.

Perhaps knowing how to use an application on the internet aside from twitter would be valuable when writing an article.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Kera Torrence — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:53:39 -0000

OH!
Ok. Thanks. Haha, I'm not good with computer stuff. Thank you! :D

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Name — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:42:19 -0000

Dude, Ben. 64 bits is not 4,294,967,296.

If 32 bits == 2,147,483,647, doubling that number only adds one additional bit of significance.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Guest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:37:34 -0000

change what? you don't need to change anything, only if you have a twitter client that you developed YOURSELF then you have to be sure the IDs are handled with large numbers than 64 bit integers, maybe you can use strings to handle them or whatever you find suitable for this.

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Kera Torrence — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:33:41 -0000

Wait how do I change it? Or how do I check what my ID thingy is??? O.o

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

Guest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:32:38 -0000

wooo, I wonder who will post the tweet that will cause the twitpocalyse? that would be a legend :)

Re: Twitpocalypse II: Twitter Apps Might Break Tomorrow

barkerja — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:32:20 -0000

God help you if an iPhone Twitter app needs a last minute update!