Twitpocalypse Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Twitpocalypse aftermath and "incident" fixes on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jun 16th, 2009)

I didn't really take last week's Twitocalypse that seriously, but as you probably know by now, it turned out a little worse than expected -- we'd been told that Twitterrific (and, we assumed, most other Twitter apps) would be fine, and of course, as Craig Hockenberry explains on his blog, things ...

Beware the coming Twitpocalypse

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2009)

Oh, computers. Every time we think we've figured you out, you come up with another number-related disaster for us to fear. This time around, it's the Twitpocalypse -- apparently Twitter decided to use a unique identifier in their API for each separate tweet that goes out, and come sometime this ...