[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-13 Thread Lakshman Prasad
Hi Matt, Could you also let us know how you increment tweet numbers. It is not constantly linearly incremented from 1, is it. That would mean there are over 2 billion tweets in the system, which isn't. On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, That

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-13 Thread mozTom
Dan, If you're using an unsigned integer, you won't see problems until the 4.2billionth tweet. If you're using a signed integer (which you don't need to, will there ever be NEGATIVE tweets?), you'll see it at the twitpocalypse. Thanks for playing. - Tom On Jun 12, 4:52 pm, Dan Udey

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-13 Thread Naveen
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:34 PM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement Dan, If you're using an unsigned integer, you won't see problems until the 4.2billionth tweet. If you're using a signed integer (which you don't need to, will there ever

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread Brian Gilham
Thanks for the heads-up, Matt! 2009/6/12 Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com: 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread kosso
Just a heads up for British devs (and Matt) : The UK is currently in 'BST' (British Summer Time) - meaning that the Twitpocalypse will occur at 10PM. (GMT + 1) @kosso On Jun 12, 11:30 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hello again,      The responses to @twitterapi and all

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Good night, and good luck. @ttytter stands ready! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- NetBSD - a devil of an operating system. -- Julian Assange -

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread Andrew Badera
Should we be withdrawing cash and stocking up on bottled water, like Y2K? On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Cameron Kaiserspec...@floodgap.com wrote: Good night, and good luck. @ttytter stands ready! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --  

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread briantroy
Matt - Are we still on for 2pm Pacific? That is roughly 40 minutes out from right now. Please confirm for us we are still on (cause if we aren't I want to go to the pool :) ) Thanks! Brian Roy justSignal On Jun 12, 11:30 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hello again,      The

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-12 Thread Matt Sanford
Hi there, That is indeed what I meant. We are planning to skip some ids to force the 2^32 change during business hours. Twitter itself should be fine but I originally announced this to the list so people could make sure they'll also be fine. There is no change to the format of

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-12 Thread Dossy Shiobara
So, what do the Four Birds of the Twitpocalypse do? Will there be awesome smiting once the Twittergeddon is upon us? -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement - 21:00 GMT

2009-06-12 Thread Doug Aitken
We seem to be hanging good here I think. They changed the time, the actual tweet was sent by @nk http://twitter.com/nk/status/2147483649 its listed on http://www.twitpocalypse.com On Jun 12, 10:36 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: as the target time has passed about 25 minutes

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse Announcement

2009-06-12 Thread Jef Poskanzer
On Jun 12, 2:05 pm, J. Adam Moore jadammo...@gmail.com wrote: Got it. Use Java's BigInteger class for all the ID fields and don't look back. :) Actually the easiest solution is to leave the status ids as strings. That's what I do in my three homebrew twitter clients and they are working just