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Twitpocalypse, I feel like turning this report into a cheap B-grade movie script, for some odd reasons. But sticking to reporting alone, Twitpocalypse is a name that has been assigned to a Twitter bug that is about to infest Twitter. Description of it says each tweet sent has a unique identifier tagged to it and this identifier is about to strike 2,147,483,647, which is a limit for signed integers. So what’s the fuss about it? Well if your Twitter clients (Seesmic, Twhirl, TweetDeck, etc) strike the number of doom, the identifier will begin getting negative, making sure the clients/apps you are using will most likely crash. The developers had anticipated this to strike later tomorrow but it’s more likely to hit us in about an hour, maybe a couple at most. Let’s see how people react to this and how quickly the issue is resolved. You can learn more about the issue from the discussion ins in the Google Group thread here.