The much loved Twitter has been abuzz with the so-called “Twitpocalypse”, a state at which software clients that uses the company’s API are to suddenly cease working. In what many are seeing as the
apocalypse of Twitter, the 32-bit signed binary number is a set limit at which the API can continue to work and function, reaching of which might result in a total system shutdown. The popularity of the said
micro-blogging site may have this as a major oversight due to it’s release on the 32-bit platform a few years back. Too many users posting too many posts, too quick for the system to handle that is causing
quite a stir with effects similar to the coming of the year 2000 when all hell was expected to break loose (nothing really happened). (more…)
April 16, 2009