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The Chinese Firewall, Twitpocalypse, and Marketing to Children

Twitpocalypse

Twitpocalypse and Internet Marketing

Twipocalypse was the term used for the feared downfall of Twitter.  Supposedly on June 13th at 5:05AM all third party Twitter apps i.e. TweetDeck, TwitPic, TwitterFeed, and TwitterHolic were supposed to crash.  The Twipocalypse website explains the reason below:

“The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647.  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.”

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