[twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Developers, It's no secret that Twitter is growing exponentially. The tweets keep coming with ever increasing velocity, thanks in large part to your great applications. Twitter has adapted to the increasing number of tweets in ways that have affected you in the past: We moved from 32 bit

RE: [twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Smith
Any app that pages through timelines uses since_id or max_id depends responses being ordered by tweet ID. What will be the replacement for since_id and max_id? Taylor Singletary wrote: We are planning to replace our current sequential tweet ID generation routine with a simple, more scalable

Re: [twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
For the majority of applications we think this scheme switch will be a non-event. Before implementing these changes, we'd like to know if your applications currently depend on the sequential nature of IDs. Do you depend on the density of the tweet sequence being constant? Are you trying to

Re: [twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread Alam Sher
Yup, I am using since_id as well in my application to perform various sequential tasks. Hopefully new id generation scheme will have this parameter support using some alternatives at least. Alam Sher On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org wrote: Any app that pages

Re: [twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread Nigel Legg
How will this change affect the since Status_id type calls? I am working on a system that will depend on being able to download mentions once and only once, and was planning on using this function to ensure I got only what I wanted. Cheers, Nigel. On 26 March 2010 20:41, Taylor Singletary

Re: [twitter-dev] Upcoming changes to the way status IDs are sequenced

2010-03-26 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 03/26/2010 01:41 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: Hi Developers, [snip] For the majority of applications we think this scheme switch will be a non-event. Before implementing these changes, we'd like to know if your applications currently depend on the sequential nature of IDs. Do you depend