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Interesting, they have their own custom epoch, the "twepoch": // Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:50:14.000 GMT val twepoch = 1142974214000L According to the READM
by paulsmith 16y ago
Interesting, they have their own custom epoch, the "twepoch":
// Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:50:14.000 GMT
val twepoch = 1142974214000L
According to the README they can fit 69 years worth of timestamps in 41 bits with the custom epoch, since they don't care about any times that happened before Twitter launched.
- kingryan 16y agoThat's the time of the first tweet. It saves us 30-something years of id space.
- dschobel 16y agoTotally OT but do you guys still know the content of the first tweet? Apparently the best google-fu effort only yields #20: http://twitter.com/jack/status/20 http://twitter.com/jack/status/20
- jmhodges 16y agoThat is, as far as the archive goes, the very first public tweet.
- jmhodges 16y agoMostly, though, we think it's just adorable.