Twitter is forcing its previously-anticipated "Twitpocalypse" to occur before the weekend begins, so engineers will be on hand to deal with the fallout. When the microbloggins service finally assigns an ID of 2,147,483,647 to a tweet, some third-party Twitter applications may crash, as this is above the limit of what can be stored in a 32-bit data field (assuming the field allows for positive and negative, or "signed," integers).

The Twitpocalypse was originally planned for 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, but this has slipped. You can watch the situation unfold here or here, or listen for the cries of "32-bit signed integer overflow, woo-hoo!"

Once geeks get past the terror and excitement of the Twitpocalypse (Will Tweetie work? Who knows?!), the Facebook reckoning will soon be upon them, in which users get to try and claim vanity URLs like "facebook.com/yourname" starting at 12:01am ET/9 p.m. PT.

The lucky ones will end up with uninterrupted Twitter service and uber-cool Facebook handles, as they surf the Web, probably alone, late on a Friday night. Yay internet!

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There were so many old-media bigwigs at the Internet Week event, it's surprising there were any admission badges left for Web startups. Bonnie Fuller, Jeff Zucker, Norm Pearlstine, Steven Brill and Jimmy Fallon joined Murdoch and Diller. Myspace's Jon Miller, AOL's Tim Armstrong and Flickr's Caterina Fake represented the new blood. There was enough space left over for a substantial contingent of New York Web entrepreneurs; the rope-line squeeze might have erupted into a media war had more of Silicon Valley turned up for Gotham's promotional festivities.

Old media or new, the event was amply digitized:

Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis took a break from squeezing other people's content for Google juice and reprised his mid-1990s role as the chronicler of Silicon Alley. This crowd shot was a particularly impressive achievement; under Mahalo's payment system, it's worth roughly half a sip of mineral water (more of Calacanis' shots are available here — and below).

Peter Kafka of All Things Digital played video paparazzo, recording Barry Diller as he introduced News Corp's Jon Miller and ex-Googler Tim Armstrong, now of AOL. Rupert Murdoch, sometime boss to both Miller and Diller, to say nothing of Kafka, made a cameo. News Corp., IAC and AOL: clearly, these are the media leaders of tomorrow!

Here's Murdoch, no doubt contemplating a strategy for seizing the microphone from Diller. Via Max Kalehoff's Flickr stream.

Murdoch and wife Wendi do their version of the "happy couple" post. Via Founders Club on Flickr.

Fallon with Dan Allen and event instigator Dina Kaplan of blip.tv. Via Founders Club on Flickr.

Wendi Murdoch hobnobs with some younger moguls: Jared Kushner of the New York Observer, left, and Miller of MySpace, right. Via Founders Club on Flickr.

Dark lords of blogging Nick Denton (Gawker), Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc., now sold off) and Henry Blodget (Business Insider) graciously donated their devious grins for a poster that will be used to scare small children next Halloween. Via Calacanis.

Younger blog moguls Rufus Griscom and Lockhart Steele still retain a significant portion of their original, human souls, and are thus capable of appearing in daylight without melting or experiencing a burning sensation like their blogfathers above. Via Calacanis.

Now where are the ridiculously hot waiters we've heard so much about? Anyone? Barry? Via Founders Club Flickr.

Flickr's Caterina Fake (left) found the other woman at the event. What we were saying about "media of the glorious, diverse future," again? Via Founders Club Flickr.

Kafka puts down the video camera and scans for his next target. Via @bgershon.

Erik Schonfeld of TechCrunch compares booze notes (probably) with upstart wine tastemaker Gary Vaynerchuk. Via Calacanis.

All the focus on wine apparently threw Schonfeld off his game.

For once, it was Laurel Touby busting Nick Denton, and not the other way round.

What's surprising isn't this tweet about a nitwit at a rich guy's party, but that there weren't more of them. The future is bright!

Everyone, it seemed, was friending everyone; Glenn Beck was even snapping fan pics of Michelle Obama and chatting up liberal internet publisher Arianna Huffington (see selected Time 100 tweets below).

Some on stage, where the founders of Twitter were honored, limited their remarks to 140 characters.

And, like the hot microblogging startup, the event was one of the few remaining bubbles where the world's economic problems could be forgotten: The champagne and food reportedly flowed freely.

Not that everyone appreciated the insulation. Page Six's Paula Froelich was as disgruntled at having to attend the event as she was thrilled getting out of last night's Met Costume Ball. Ann Coulter had trouble finding a safe table, according to some whispers overheard by Glynnis MacNicol. And Time's James Poniewozik, stuck in the cheap seats at his own event, brought word that host Jimmy Fallon was scared by visions of a drunken full complement of View ladies.

(UPDATE: Froelich emails to set the record straight, "LOVED the Time 100 — was a heck of a lot of fun - was just annoyed about having to deal with subway in black tie and changing shoes/putting on makeup on the D train due to security for M.O. (I'm not dumb - i remember the inauguration fracas, you couldnt take a cab within 50 blocks of the Pbamas!).")

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Some Twitter selections:

Pictures were taken, on and off the red carpet:

Michelle Obama was, naturally, sleeveless, and Stella McCartney requested she stay that way, forever, for the good of fashion. (Getty Images)

M.I.A. was sporting purple lipstick and a denim-y jacket. Glynnis MacNicol caught a shot of the singer mingling.

Liv Tyler, Stella McCartney and Kate Hudson were mingling, A-list style. (Getty)

Oprah always mingles A-list-style, by definition. (MacNicol)

A.R. Rahman and Falu perform. (Celebrity photographer (in a way) Evan Williams)

MacNicol becomes meta-paparazzo.

UPDATE: Keith Kelly from the New York Post put together a cool chart of who sat where at host Time Inc's tables. Highlights:

Power table: Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Time Inc. bigshots John Huey and Richard Stengel (Time editor).

Cool kids' table: Biz Stone of Twitter, hottie Obama speechwriter Jon Favreai, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and model/designer Lauren Bush.

Geek table: Conservative pundit Ann Coulter, stats whiz Nate Silver, Ford CEO Alan Mullally and Time assistant managing editor Michael Duffy.

If you want to drink and dance, the party's free. Just register at the website. But plastering your company's name on the wall at this hipfest is another matter. There are over a dozen sponsors, and social media upstart SocialThing reportedly paid $10,000 to attach its young brand to the "ranch" for the company's launch party last night.

Xenii is a private party run by Michael Sutton and Rob Perry, members only. There is nothing else in LA like this. Full membership is actually $4,500/mo, not the $1,500/mo quoted in your piece. There is a cheaper $650/mo membership but this comes with virtually no privileges.

And while $4500 a month to the Google boys is like $4.50 to you and me, it's nice to know they have one little extravagance — and exciting to know that while Larry may be settling down, Sergey's reportedly still on the prowl.

Earlier: Open blinds: Googler à gogo in LA club [Valleywag]