So, does this mean (to paraphrase): IDs will remain sorted *all* the time except when comparing between 2 tweets sent within 1 second apart, the order *might* be reversed. And therefore, for most Twitter apps, no change is necessary?
-- Hwee-Boon On Jun 2, 10:00 am, themattharris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > In March we sent a message to you about upcoming changes to the way > status IDs are sequenced (http://bit.ly/upcoming-status-id-changes). > Today we announced Snowflake - the service we will be using to > generate those new IDs. > > It isn't going live yet! We just know a lot of you are concerned about > how the Tweet IDs are going to affect your applications and wanted you > to have the chance to familiarize yourself with how Snowflake works. > > You can find the a link to the code and read more about Snowflake on > the Twitter Engineering blog:http://bit.ly/announcing-snowflake > > Best, > Matt
