[twitter-dev] Weird hex/alphanumeric ids for retweets?

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Provost
Hi everyone, I have a problem that puzzles me: I get ids back from twitter which are in an alphanumeric/hex format, for instance take a look at the tweet packet at the bottom of this message. The id 31fe39275142e6fe is completely different from the format I'm used to, e.g. 11897582800343040.

Re: [twitter-dev] Weird hex/alphanumeric ids for retweets?

2010-12-08 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
1. Please, when you think that the API is wrong, attach the JSON (or XML) part and not the output from your application. 2. I assume that you are using a language that can't handle large numbers properly. I've just checked, and I'm still getting proper IDs back. There's an id field and an