On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Tim Meadowcroft <meer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think you can only really rely on IDs having different values. > > In general, at the moment with Twitter, you could assume they increase over > time, but (and I don't work for Twitter) typically ID allocation on large > multihost systems don't work by allocating strictly sequential IDs without > gaps - it's too hard to sequence and not really necessary. > Yes, this is how they do it. https://github.com/twitter/snowflake /damon -- 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 Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
