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What is the amount in the Twitter status update URL?

My latest Twitter status update has a URL http://twitter.com/dinomite/status/1743967905 Does anyone know if there is any rhyme or reason behind the number 1743967905

? It seems to me that it might be a sequential number for all Twitter users; I certainly don't update 1.7b times, but everything from Twitter could be around that. Somebody knows?

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According to the Twitter API docs, this is a numeric status identifier. I assume it is unique and consistent across all users, but I don't know for sure. If you need to know more, take a look here for the official docs.



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This will likely be the main key in the status table. This URL format is used to view a specific tweet.

Please note that http://twitter.com/dinomite is the actual feed.



Also, depending on how it looks gradually, it's probably an IDENTITY column or similar.

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Yes, they are consistent.

One of the things this is useful for is when writing a Twitter client, you can ask for something newer than the last number you've already seen so that you don't get and don't have to parse duplicates.

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