Twitter IDs (snowflake) — Twitter Developers
Snowflake is a service used to generate unique IDs for objects within Twitter (Tweets, Direct Messages, Users, Collections, Lists etc.). These IDs are unique 64-bit unsigned integers, which are based on time, instead of being sequential. The full ID is composed of a timestamp, a worker number, and a sequence number. When consuming the API using JSON, it is important to always use the field id_str instead of id. This is due to the way Javascript and other languages that consume JSON evaluate large integers. If you come across a scenario where it doesn't appear that id and id_str match, it's due to your environment having already parsed the id integer, munging the number in the process. Read below for more information on how Twitter generates its ids.
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