Loyal Moses » Drama http://www.loyalmoses.com public var blog:Blog = Blog.getInstance(); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:33:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitpocalypse! Run for your lives… http://www.loyalmoses.com/2009/06/twitpocalypse-run-for-your-lives/ http://www.loyalmoses.com/2009/06/twitpocalypse-run-for-your-lives/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:37:41 +0000 moses http://www.loyalmoses.com/?p=272 Tweetie Twitter ScreenshotJust before midnight last night @ 23:52 GMT (06-12-09), the total number of tweets on Twitter exceeded the value of a 32-bit signed integer.

Of course, as expected Twitter was not affected — after all, this is their game and they were well prepared. However, considering that the majority of Twitter users are using 3rd party tools to interact with Twitter, it is no surprise that problems have and will arise.

I awoke this morning and found zero new tweets to read as well as noticed the search functionality of my main desktop twitter client  (Tweetie) was dead. This must be a complete coincidence and nothing more right?

Now I was speculating, that it just must be a beautiful Saturday morning throughout our little planet and the twittersphere was out enjoying the day away from the more than 2,147,483,647 (maximum value for a 32-bit signed integer) total tweets which are now part of history.

Tweetie search… confirmed dead.

Loren Brichter from atebits (@atebits / http://www.atebits.com), the creator of Tweetie confirmed this morning that Tweetie is in-fact suffering from twitpocalypse related injuries.

atebits: “Busted searches in Tweetie are Twitpocalypse-related. Hoping to find some Internet tonight so I can get an update out. Mea culpa.”

Tweetie’s broken search is a minor casualty, but I do speculate that this mornings eerie tweet silence is due to a few more Twitter clients dropping like flies in the face of integer overflows.

Visit http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ for the current total of Twitter tweets. As of this post the total was running through 2,153,991,662 tweets and growing at an average of 131 tweets per second. — surely it should be higher than 131 tweets per second…

This new age Twitter crowd is calling this the Y2K of their time and the buzz surrounding the newly coined term ‘twitpocalypse’ is getting rather fervent. Well, if by Y2K of their kind, they mean an over-hyped and exaggerated nothing… then yes, I will agree and folks this is like Y2K all over again!

UPDATE: Twitterific for the iPhone and iPod Touch are confirmed to be failing due to the signed integer trouble as well. The desktop version of the application is unaffected (so it seems).

UPDATE: Nambu is reporting they have replies showing up next to every tweet. They admit they did not make a wise integer selection and will have it resolved as quickly as possible.

UPDATE: Tweetie for the desktop has been updated (1.2.2) and Tweetie for the iPhone has been updated and sent for App Store approval; Thanks @atebits!

For me, I think I will go enjoy this rare but beautiful Saturday with my family.

Oh, and I think I should probably drop a link and an invitation to follow me on Twitter: @loyalmoses

~moses

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In an earlier blog posting I mentioned that I gave Google’s Knol project a shot and posted a short summary on Adobe Flex.

I was surprised when the first comment I received was more or less an attack, rather than an editing suggestion or discussion on the actual topic.
It would be sad if Google Knol turned out to be an unfortunate, formalized news group where the battle of ego’s just gets better search relevance.

The link to the Knol is below.

This is the comment received from one Michael Chaize:

“Thank you for this wonderful summary… but please remove the three links that are obviously there to generate traffic and not to show what Adobe Flex. Aanval and Tactical Flex are not the best Flex RIA I’ve met on the web… Really! And I am pretty sure that the redactor Loyal Moses is involved in these 3 applications. It really removes the trust a reader can have in this article.“

My response:

“Thanks for your comments Michael, this is precisely what makes Knol a wonderful new system. 

Regarding Tactical FLEX, it is of course my company and Aanval is one of our products. Aanval was recently converted to Adobe Flex from primarily a PHP/AJAX architecture within the last several months, thus the reason for our excitement with the technology. 

Anywhere.FM is simply a good example of Flex at work. There are as you already know, many good examples of Flex products and services, and this is why I included the Flex.org link to the very popular showcase. 

I do have to point out, that the Knol does not in any form imply or make claims that any of the links or content provided is “the best” as you mentioned above. This is simply false. 

As for trust, Google Knol is exciting as it provides a mechanism for perspective on topics while providing credibility through verification. I am in fact Loyal Moses, and as such, readers should know that although I attempt to remain as objective as possible, I do however have opinions, likes and dislikes and enjoy speaking of them. 

To be fair, you might disclose that you currently work for Adobe (pre sales). I cannot speak for everyone, but I am sure we all look forward to your perspective on Flex from an internal point of view.“


The apparently offensive Knol on Adobe Flex:
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