UUIDs are 128 bit integers. Moving from 64 to 128 bits is likely far more disruptive than the proposed scheme.
---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Nigel Legg <nigel.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > If the since_id api calls will work against this, it might be a solution... > > > On 26 March 2010 20:58, Donny V. <don...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why don't you just use GUIDs as your id and then just add a timedate >> attribute stamp and call it a day. >> That would give you a unique id and also give your tweets an order. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE >> ME" as the subject. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.