The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. The unique identifier associated to each tweet has now exceeded 2,147,483,6471.
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. But not to worry Apps will get fixes..
The Tweet of the Twitpocalypse occured on 2009-06-12 23:52:04 GMT
by @nk
Tweet number 2147483649
One of the very first Apps to be effected was - Twitterrific
