What is the documented range for status IDs? (How high can they go?) Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:twitter- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Payne > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Alert: "Twitpocalypse II" coming Friday, > September 11th - make sure you can handle large status IDs! > > > Sorry, an error in phrasing. It was previously mentioned that this > change was pending. We had not previously announced a date for the > change. > > Normally, we prefer to provide more advance notice where possible, but > I'm letting you all know immediately after our operations team > informed me that it was necessary to make this change on Friday. > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:13, Hwee-Boon Yar<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > May I know when and where was it mentioned that it will be > > artificially increased this coming Friday? > > > > -- > > Hwee-Boon > > > > On Sep 10, 2:49 am, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As mentioned previously, the Twitter operations team > willartificially > >> increase the maximum status ID to 4294967296 this coming Friday, > >> September 11th. This action is part of routine database upgrades and > >> maintenance. > >> > >> If your Twitter API application stores status IDs, please be sure > that > >> your datastore is configured to handle integers of that size. > Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > > > > > -- > Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x
