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Because the APIs fetch recent tweets, the service needs an index on time. Although it should be easy for client applications to sort on time instead of id, tha
by frognibble 16y ago
Because the APIs fetch recent tweets, the service needs an index on time.
Although it should be easy for client applications to sort on time instead of id, that's not what all applications do. Twitter chose not to break clients that sort on id.
- jrockway 16y agoYou could just fake the id later. Why ruin your architecture because your users are lazy?