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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > staff available in the unlikely event something goes wrong on our end. > We'll also be available when people who don't follow the twitter-dev- > talk list start reporting errors. While we did warn developers about > the Twitpocalypse I'm sorry we didn't think about setting a drop-dead > date and scheduling this previously. We'll keep trying to improve on > warnings like this. > > Good night, and good luck. > > Thanks; > – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > Twitter Dev > > On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Matt Sanford wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > The overflow of the 32-bit signed integer value for status ids > > (a.k.a "The Twitpocalypse" [1]) is fast approaching. The current > > estimate is around tomorrow at around 11am GMT, or 3:00am Pacific > > time in the case of Twitter. There is some discussion internally > > about accelerating things so we'll be in the office and able to > > cope. Nobody is their freshest at 3:00am, not to mention it would be > > nice to not have apps broken throughout the weekend if one-person > > developer teams don't notice. No decision has been made yet but I > > wanted to get something out to you all so you know what's going on > > in the event we decide to do this. > > > Thanks; > > – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > > Twitter Dev > > > [1] -http://www.twitpocalypse.com/
