Twitter uses strings instead of ints to represent the 64 bit UID, because Javascript only supports 53bit ints instead of 64bit... https://developer.twitter.com/

Twitter uses strings instead of ints to represent the 64 bit UID, because Javascript only supports 53bit ints instead of 64bit... https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ids https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ids