In a Twitter announcement earlier this week, developer advocate Arne Roomann-Kurrik told programmers who build apps on top of the service that the company is moving from 32-bit to 64-bit user IDs.
As SFGate picked up on, hidden in the announcement’s web address was a jokey label: Roomann-Kurrik called the situation a “Twitter user IDpocalypse.”
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Previously on AllTwitter we’ve written a couple of posts that looked at how independent analysis of the user ID numbers on Twitter has led to estimates that the network now has about 260-70 million registered profiles.
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