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This reminded me of the surprisingly interesting chapter on character counting in their docs: https://dev.twitter.com/basics/counting-characters https://dev.twi

This reminded me of the surprisingly interesting chapter on character counting in their docs: https://dev.twitter.com/basics/counting-characters https://dev.twitter.com/basics/counting-characters Summary: the probably did find problems like that, but long before this change when they encountered different languages and character sets. I'm sure running into the int32 limit for object ids was more of a hassle.

danso 10y ago
Speaking of interesting writeups, their writeup on Snowflake, the system they use to generate unique 64-bit integers for tweets is itself a great read: https://blog.twitter.com/2010/announcing-snowflake https://blog.twitter.com/2010/announcing-snowflake