[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-05 Thread TechRavingMad
Yeah, it definately not users, just IDs. Out of the (now) 44.8+ user IDs about half are actual user accounts that haven't been deleted or banned. That's accounts, it counts multiple accounts from the same person as individual accounts. Twitter IDs are sequentially assigned. This is easily

[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM, TechRavingMad techraving...@gmail.comwrote: There are a little over 44.5 million twitter IDs as of right now (10:10pm cst 6/3/9) with what seems to be about 10 being added every second. However, Twitter has been quite clear about not saying if status IDs

[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-04 Thread David Fisher
I'm hoping that Twitter counts users when reporting their numbers, and not accounts. The reason being that I've signed up probably... 5 accounts myself (main, API testing, business, etc, etc). I'm not sure how many the average user signs up, but it's definitely on average more than 1. I'm

[twitter-dev] Re: random sampling of users....do we know anything about user id range?

2009-06-03 Thread TechRavingMad
There are a little over 44.5 million twitter IDs as of right now (10:10pm cst 6/3/9) with what seems to be about 10 being added every second.