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It's a good point but I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident. If your IDs were sortable in the past it's probably a good a idea to keep
by amichal 6y ago
It's a good point but I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident. If your IDs were sortable in the past it's probably a good a idea to keep them sortable. And since tweets more often than not refer to tweets in the same time range or are paginated together with tweets in the same time range (roughly) having time as a prefix has other advantages
- zimpenfish 6y ago> I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident. Yeah, it's what they created Snowflake for. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing-snowflake.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...