On: Twitter's UID associated to each tweet will very soon exceed 2,147,483,647

[patio11]

I suspect for a lot of people coding against Twitter the notion of integers being signed or unsigned is about as foreign to their experience as pointer arithmetic. I do not consider that a bad thing.

irb > "2,147,483,647".gsub(",","").to_i + 1

2147483648

(Forgive the extra code necessary to strip out the commas. The Windows irb console leaves a little to be desired in terms of midline editing.)

[there → patio11]

you know ruby supports _ as a comma separator, right?

irb(main):002:0> 2_147_483_647 + 1

=> 2147483648