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iirc, the IDs wrapped around 53 bits right as people were stressed out and in the final stages of shipping new UI
so identifying root cause took a bit, and then it was panic time down in API land and id_str was the expedient hack
An Oral History of Twitter Engineering Panic
There were multiple times when tweet_id alone caused freak outs.
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