Twitter is in league with Al Qaida! You heard it first here, folks! Ok, seriously, this message I wrote wasn't worth the electrons it took to transmit it... let's see if I can increase the s2n ratio:
4294967296, that an unsigned 32-bit int? ok, fair enough. i know some of my apps use signed 64bit ints, but i'm not sure about the db... will need to check... might be signed32... Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Nicholas Moline wrote: > And nobody thought about the significance of accelerating anything > called a *pocolypse to be on the anniversary of a date that thousands > died in a terrorist attack.... Tactful Twitter... Real Tactful > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com > <mailto:a...@twitter.com>> wrote: > > > Sorry, an error in phrasing. It was previously mentioned that this > change was pending. We had not previously announced a date for the > change. > > Normally, we prefer to provide more advance notice where possible, but > I'm letting you all know immediately after our operations team > informed me that it was necessary to make this change on Friday. > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:13, Hwee-Boon Yar<hweeb...@gmail.com > <mailto:hweeb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > May I know when and where was it mentioned that it will be > > artificially increased this coming Friday? > > > > -- > > Hwee-Boon > > > > On Sep 10, 2:49 am, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com > <mailto:a...@twitter.com>> wrote: > >> As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team > willartificially > >> increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this coming Friday, > >> September 11th. This action is part of routine database > upgrades and > >> maintenance. > >> > >> If your Twitter API application stores status IDs, please be > sure that > >> your datastore is configured to handle integers of that size. > Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > > > > > -- > Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x > >
