Well, i red about this a few minutes ago.

It’s similar to the Y2K, I can’t believe that the developers from twitter didn’t see this coming.

Why the used a 32bit integer to count every message? this is really simple to resolve, just moving on to a 64bit integer. to see it graphically:

a 32 bit integer can get to 2,147,483,647 (signed) messages

a 64 bit integer can  go up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 messages

You can find out more here

maybe it’s just hype, let’s see this should happen in a 2-3 hours more.