Twitpocalypse Now’ish — Is Your iPhone Twitter Client Safe?
Twitpocalypse.com defines the event as:
similar to the Y2K bug. The unique identifier associated to each tweet has now exceeded 2,147,483,6471 [...] For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash.
Here’s how it may be affecting some of your favorite iPhone Twitter clients:
- Tweetie: Official word: Searches are busted, hoping to update soon.
- Birdhouse: Updated: Publishing is fine, unpublishing is broken. Fix is on its way.
- Twitterrific: Currently experiencing problems after a preventative update wasn’t enough to avoid the great doom. Second update in the works per Icon Factory.
- Twitterfon: Unknown, if you have word, let us know.
- Twittelator Pro: Claims to be okay (thanks @JNHohol for the link!).
- Twitkitteh: Is, apparently, unaffected.
If you notice your favorite Twitter client misbehaving, drop a comment below or let us know via @theiphoneblog and we’ll update.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Twittelator Pro is working well! Searching, updating, etc. no problems.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Twittelator Pro seems to be working fine. Simplytweet works like a charm too.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:29 am
TwitterFon seems to be working fine: updating, searching, opening links, sending updates all work.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Twitterfon working fine for me, as well.
June 13th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I’m using Twitterific free and I’m getting a “Twitter API Error” (YAJL error 3.) bugger.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Twitterrific – “Twitter API Error” (YAJL error 3.)
June 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I use Tweetie, Twitterfon and Twitterific. Twitterfon is the only one unaffected while twitterific is pretty much useless to me. Tweetie has errors on Search and Nearby, but not on the tweets themselves.
June 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Ditto Gridfire & Rob. Darn it.
June 13th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Twitterific “Twitter API Error”YAJL error 3)
June 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Just switched to TwitterFon, works fine.
June 13th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Twitterific “Twitter API Error”YAJL error 3). Twitterfon is working but what a giant step down in terms of functionality.
June 13th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
TwitterFon working
June 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Twutterific —not so much. getting the YAJL error since 2AM
June 14th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Twitterrific – “Twitter API Error” (YAJL error 3.)
June 14th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Twitterific Pro API Error.
June 14th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Twitterrific – “Twitter API Error” (YAJL error 3.) every time when checking new tweets or posting. But it seems that new tweet is posted
June 14th, 2009 at 4:59 am
I’ve been getting the API YAJL error since 11am on Saturday on twiierrific on my iPhone.
June 14th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Me too…twitterfic “Twitter API Error” (YAJL error 3 since Friday around 8pm.
June 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
my 3g would update from twitterrific even tho it gave api error at first, now completely useless. my friend with a 1st gen iphone had no probs with twitterrific last i heard…
June 15th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Me too. Since Friday i cant use Twitterific! Does anybody know why i get an api error on twitterific? Please help!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Twitterific is now updated–all better
June 15th, 2009 at 7:26 am
I just got a twitteriffic update on the iphone that says it should fix the bug. Now working fine! was getting the yajl error all weekend
June 15th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
twitterific pro is still having issues with yajl error 3, and there has been no update.
June 15th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Twitterific “Twitter API Error”YAJL error 3 Since Friday i cant use Twitterific!
June 16th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Was getting the API error, installed update on Sunday which didn’t help. Installed new update 2 minutes ago (which specifically said would fix bug) and BAM! we are back w/ 40 new tweets.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Twitterific v 2.0.2 fixes the YAJL error 3
June 19th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Twitter API Error The connection to Twitter failed with ‘Operation could not be completed. (YAJL error 3.)’
June 21st, 2009 at 12:00 am
tweetie only loads one tweet at a time in trends.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Twitterrific with the same error as everyone, moving to TwitterFon