Does anybody convert the numerical values in the returned xml-string to integers? I´m thinking of values like favorites_count, followers_count, (user) id and (status) id, timestamp among others.
Is it resonable to convert them to 32 bit unsigned integers? Or do they sometimes return negative values? Are any of them occasionally larger than 32 bit? I guess the timestamp as 32 bit only lasts until 2038 but I can take that ;-). It would help to know how Twitter is handling those on the server side. I can find no information about that in the API documentation. And my c ++ API could gain a nice speed/convenience/memory efficiency boost from using a smaill int instead of a bloated string.
