In short, today, yes. Soon, no, but it might not matter.
At the moment, status ids are strictly increasing. We can't keep generating
status ids from a single critical section forever though -- at some point
soon we'll have a loosely-coupled distributed id generation system and ids
will be k-sorted
When I am sorting tweets, can I just do a simple sort DESC on
status_id instead of the creation date? I assume status_ids are
created sequentially going up so sorting on status_id would be more
efficient than trying to sort on the created_at field.
