Twitter IDpocalypse: User IDs Going To Run Out In 2078
In a Twitter announcement earlier this week, developer advocate Arne Roomann-Kurrik told programmers who build apps on top of the service that the company is moving from 32-bit to 64-bit user IDs.
As SFGate picked up on, hidden in the announcement’s web address was a jokey label: Roomann-Kurrik called the situation a “Twitter user IDpocalypse.”
Hit the panic button: turns out that Twitter will run out of numbers in 2078.
Let’s dive into this:
Twitter already moved to 64-bit IDs for tweets back in 2009, and it’s essentially adopting the same system, which is called Snowflake,
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