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 > on the density of the tweet sequence being constant? Are you trying to > analyze the IDs as anything other than opaque, ordered identifiers? Aside > for guaranteed sequential tweet ID ordering, what APIs can we provide you to > accomplish your goals? I'm a mathematician. So yes, I *am* trying to analyze the IDs as other than identifiers. ;-) As long as the status ID generation algorithm is documented - how many bits are timestamp, how many bits are random, what the granularity of the timestamp is, how the Spritzer and Gardenhose sampling is done, etc. - I can do what I want to do without any API additions. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
