[twitter-dev] Re: Basic question re Snowflake/K-sorted

2010-11-04 Thread @Joel_Hughes
Thanks John, that's the fall back tactic I was considering! Thanks for your help Joel -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list

[twitter-dev] Basic question re Snowflake/K-sorted

2010-11-04 Thread @Joel_Hughes
Hi all, many apologies if I'm asking a basic question here but I'm looking at this new Snowflake ID on the horizon... My usual logic for processing tweets is something like this: - find all tweets I'm interested in with status id > {stored max status id} - process those tweets - store the highest